And yet, the basketball court was again abuzz with activity. Steve had just come home from mowing a few yards for date money and brought three of his ...uddies over to play some hoops. Those young men could go on for hours outside, it seemed. She marveled at their stamina. She loved watching them sweat and hustle in the heat. All of them were tall and rangy and were just now of the age where they were growing body hair and developing muscles. Her mind drifted. She found herself imagining being. She had escaped the equalists, was safe. few hours later into nighttime, equalists showed up.she ran to the entrance of the alleys and hid here. Amon showed up here, said "you may hide, but i will find you." she was hiding in the bushes and under the fallen tree log. Amon sees the log, orders Equalists to electrocute the log. so they did. after that, she comes out and ran. she was not affected by it. one equalist struck her behind her back with electrocuted ball. she was electrocuted again,. What? ... sixteen going on thirty? ... actually eighteen as he claimed? ... carefully unbuttoned the first of three buttons holding the front of the faded, worn shirt together. The man paused in his own undressing—watching, listening, sitting on the edge of the bed."It's more than foolish, it's ... it's stupid."Black eyes looked into brown, pulling the man off the bed although he didn't move, pulling him into midnight speckled with tiny flares of nova-light, drowning him in infinite space. The. I ran my hand up her leg and felt her skin shiver beneath my fingers. I asked her if she’d ever thought about me before that day. She shook her head no but whimpered as my fingers brushed her inner thigh and slid under the hem of her dress. She held her breath as I traced the edge of her silk panties and gasped hard as my fingers slide across them. I could feel how wet she was, and I desperately wanted to rip her panties off and dive my tongue into her right there. Instead, I ran my finger back.