The room around me was mid session, but frozen like a still from amovie. The teacher was mid-gesture to a pupil over the other side of theroom with th...ir hand up. She looked old, and firm. Some of the kidsaround me were detestable: some had stupid dyed black hair andpretentious badges proclaiming them to be loners and thinkers, otherswere nerdy types who cowered at the front... it was exactly the same aswhen I'd been to school. Only I was the confident one who both knew allthe answers and won. I wanted to help develop the next generation of computer applications. Being able to write up research findings was a plus. So, I did well in the writing courses. I was also taking calculus-and math is one of my strengths.What surprised me were my classmates. I didn't get scorned. I wrote a paper for the writing course that led to a lively discussion in class-and the feedback I got from my classmates was great. No scorn, no derision, just opinions founded on respect. It was pretty awesome.What. “Hi Jeannie. You,re gorgeous! Trust Carl to find a knock out!” Harvey gasped. “Thank You. Best friend if my master. How may I serve you? A friend of my master is a friend of mine of course!” “Well if Carl and I weren,t due to report to training in an hour I,d love to do things in bed with you.” “That,s no problem sir. I can freeze time while we get to know each other better if you wish.” “Wouldn’t,t that be using one of my three wishes though?” “Of Course not! By releasing me from my bottle. I was going to be abride in a wedding. YIKES! The fact that I was a newly minted "fourteenyear old" kept nipping at the back of my mind. Hell, Sam and I weren'tcousins and this wasn't Arkansas (sorry to all of you that live there!) Sam came strolling in unannounced and headed straight to the "bar". Onceagain I cut him off at the pass and persuaded him that the last thingthe babies needed was alcohol. I began worrying about his actions when Iwasn't around to make sure he behaved himself. I was.