" For minutes. Minutes! ... A few days ago, he'd stay awake, talk to me for a half-hour, anyway. Now it's goddamned minutes!"We held hands, there, in ...he sunny, cheerful visitors' lounge. After a long while, she stood up, walked back down the hall and into Nolan's room, and sat beside his bed. I followed along behind her."Go home, clean up, have dinner, and come back," she said. "Don't worry. He won't wake up again for hours. Maybe not until morning, even." Why don't you come back with me?" I. " Miss Mathews -- why were you throwing 20 questions out at my cheerleaders? And in the locker room yet!" Taryn fumed."I was merely introducing myself, making a little conversation, getting acquainted," Mary Ann said coolly."Please do it on your own time. I have a squad of cheerleaders to coach," Taryn snapped, turning on her heel and storming away. Since she was wearing ballet slippers and tight shorts, it was quite a view."I want all of these freshmen," Mary Ann began, "I want all of the. 'Who are you?' the female voice asked.'Your new master, Maser. You're power will join ours, and you will do our bidding... ''I don't think so, ' Maser replied.A scream ripped through Victor's mind, and he sat up shaking. Flipping the light on, he swung his legs over the side of the bed and sat there. The hair on his arms was sticking straight out, and his body was tingling as if he had touched an electrical outlet. Getting up, he walked to the bathroom and washed his face."Damn, what the hell. I remained frozen. I was lost now; this mad game I had chosento play would end in shouting, evil glares and cops. Miracle of miracles,her breathing resumed its prior steady pace. The leg under my hand relaxed.She was asleep again. Thank God. Ever so slowly, I began my withdrawal.All I wanted now was for my stupid fucking hand to be safe in my own fuckinglap. I had retreated as far as the stocking top when her thighs openedand then closed trapping me between them. "No." Very softly but.