When I walk back out, mom is still waiting in the car, and I can feel her eyes on me as I walk to my room and unlock the door. I look back at her one ...ast time, before I walk in and turn on the lights.I sit on the queen-sized bed, as I wait. Have I overstepped m y bounds? She had all but said she’d intentionally kissed me that first night. After a few minutes pass, I turn on the TV. Have I made another mistake? Did I misunderstand what she had in mind? As the minutes wear on, I wonder if mine. " Barocca entered a few more keystrokes on the computer, and paused to inspect the file she was working on. "The only problem is, you weren't too terribly clever about where you put the file itself, Ebony. All I had to do was map a drive to the security computer's volumes, and then do a search for any files with a .BAT extension. There were only a handful of those there, and the name itself made it stand out like a sore thumb. You're not the only one who went to college, and is smarter than. We were hand in hand as we exited the elevator and walked out to the bus stop. People walking by stared at us as we stood there waiting. After all, Keiko was just about naked under her beach jacket. I wasn't as naked looking as she was, but my g-string was still pretty skimpy.The bus came and we got on, once again being stared at by the driver and everyone on board."Isn't it exciting?", Keiko asked, tightly gripping my hand for emphasis. "Hey, where's my hard-on?", she said, looking at my. Very uh... noble, Trace," I managed to say."I've had a life-changing experience," she said softly. "I'm still alive when I should be dead, even after having the accident I was fated to have." She looked at me. "I can see that some of the thoughts I've been having about fate are occurring to you too."She did realize the ramifications. No slouch was my sister. "Sometimes," I said, "this whole thing just scares the crap out of me. Before I came back I was pretty much an atheist. I didn't believe.