He’d have to figured out what to tell her before Monday morning he thought to himself.“Ok don’t worry about it only girls are allowed at this pa...ty with the exception being you. You always have an open ended invitation to all Cassie’s parties Ant.”“Maybe another time, you go have a nice time and be a good girl. I love you little one.”“I love you too big brother.”He turned back to Sar-Rah and started backward as she was standing directly behind him almost close enough to touch him when he. Lilly was livid and someone was going to feel her wrath. It was a Friday night and she had first wasted some of it on her shithole boss and now another hour was flushed down the toilet waiting for a couple of asshats in a big truck to come and fix her car! They had probably gotten the call while eating someplace nearby and just not bothered to come until they finished eating! Oh, she was ready to give them a real good piece of her mind!The driver pulled around so his door was looming over her. The Interface was now giving off a satisfying hum, and it's surface was alivewith shifting rainbow globules that rose and fell back into it as if themetal hull were a lake and they were it's glowing, misshapen fish. And he hadnot even fully engaged the thing! Throwing the final set of toggles, Albrought it fully to life. The effect took him by surprise. Where before theInterface had been awash in strange multi-colored light, turned to full powerit now became a living nova of them.Al jumped. . "That's not a surprise, I guess," he muttered wryly, "Tuesdays and Thursdays I don't know, myself. But..." It was still wrong," Ed finished for him. Male or female, he'd been raped."Look, I... need a friend," Ed husked. "Mike... I can't stop..." Ed broke down at that point. Slowly, it came out; Mike had him hooked on homosexual sex. Ed thought that if he had a girlfriend -- or even just had sex with a girl -- it might break the cycle; that was sort of what impelled him to go along with Mike's.