His wife wasnt home. Babe whats going on? I said sitting next to him. He sat there with his head buried in his hands. Erica… I dont even know how ...o say.. He mumbled. I rubbed his back. Ive been laid off, Erica. I wont be teaching at our school anymore. My heart sank to the floor. WHAT? How? The school simply doesnt have enough money. He said with a tear running down his face. I got on my knees and I held his face. I wiped his tear and gave him a hug. Well get through this. Okay? Youre. I waited but no one came. I powered down and "slept" for awhile waiting. I woke up when that lightning storm hit. I did a search and found you. I sent the hint to you to come to the cave. I transformed it to make it habitable. It is now like I had made it for you then. When you entered the cave I decided to carry out one of my directives that I found in the data banks of my computers. I caused you to sleep and then I initiated the temporal rift. I took you back to shortly after my crash. "You ready to go to sleep?" I nodded. At that moment another chill went through me. Iclasped my arms closer to fight it off. "Want me to keep you warm?" she asked. I nodded. She moved closer to me and put one arm around my head toslightly lift and cradle me onto her bosom. "There we are," shesaid, and as soon as I was settled against her she unbuttoned hershirt and pulled it open loosely. Then she pulled her bra up,baring her breasts, and wiggled down so that her left nipplegrazed my cheek. I. Well this was worth a try as Delia and Ted felt failures in trying to get J’Arnie and Hamish to cooperate with a rostered contribution to stuff like washing up, clean the loo or raking up a few autumn leaves. So it was back to the basic: the not too much to ask: just keep up the frickin grade point average. Well it seemed too much to ask of both J’Arnie and Hamish... as a pair of letters arrived from their college a couple of weeks after the supposed study weekend: stating both step siblings.