"As long as I want you to."That could be days I thought. It was the worst seat in the entire class. The seat was uneven and wobbly, the table was wo...se. It was dreaded by those who got on the teacher's bad side. It was even more dreaded by those who hadn't done any wrong. Like me.After I reluctantly moved myself to the front. She handed out the test answer sheets. She came over to my "desk" and threw the sheet in my general direction. "You have 75 minutes to complete this exam. Begin." . "Sure you did, Heath." her father replied, snapping Freia out of her daydream. He chuckled, and decided to lay off his oldest. At least for a while. At least, he thought, Freia and Van were safe. Freia had just broken up with her boyfriend, and, based on past experience, it would take her a month to get over it, and then she'd be onto the next guy. From her frequency in changing boyfriends, he was fairly sure that none of them had gotten serious. Van, on the other hand, was unpopular enough. "It's -59C in here! We'll have an even harder time getting certified if we're frozen to death!"Eliana humphed back. "You're the one with the physics background! The prime power pack is supposed to be self-starting! Come up with something!" Acknowledged Commander! Working on it now!" Basel stomped over to the non-responsive power core and stood before it motionless.Eliana thought his move was more to get away from her than to do anything constructive. "Oh hell," she thought. "Did I really have. We were squished together like sardines in a can. The band started playing and the crowd started getting wild and we all started getting more and more squished together. After a while I noticed I was the only female this close to the stage. I was surrounded by men or should I say teenagers between ages of 16 and 25. My husband was standing beside me, he had had a few to many drinks before the concert so he was pretty much out of it. The guy behind me was so squished up against me he had his.