Both Parker and Jared just stared in amazement. I started dancing again and this time, Jared and Parker both joined in. I had Jared behind me against ...y ass (his favourite spot) and Parker in front. After dancing for ages, Jared leaned over to my ear and whispered that Parker and I should find somewhere a little more private, before he exploded. I hadn’t realised it, but Parker’s pants were getting extremely tight! I grabbed his hand and lead him out to the kitchen again so he could hear me. Cormac assured him that that we knew what we were doing, and that everything was fine.Once the cab had driven off, Cormac led the way off of the road. We made our way into the fields, which were covered with snow. I knew better than to use the power to make our journey easier, as Charles had warned me I had to keep such abilities a secret. That meant that we had a rough twenty minutes struggling through ankle deep snow until it began to thin out.The closer we got to the coastline, the thinner. "The council has given me their word on this."Great, Wilde thought. A bunch of lying, cheating, backstabbing politicians have given their word. "Listen, General," he said. "What if we gave them misinformation instead?" Misinformation?" Browning said, appalled. "You mean lie to the media?" We've been lying to the media the entire time," Wilde reminded. "They still think we've only lost a thousand soldiers in this conflict. They still think Martian suicide crews killed our Panamas. Why don't we. Two weeks after the banquet was graduation, in all its pomp and circumstance. All of the seniors lined up in the gymnasium, dressed in our caps and gowns, and marched two-by-two out into the football stadium, where our families were roasting in the hot sun. We listened to a bunch of boring speeches, the words buzzing in and out of our ears without ever landing coherently. It was excruciatingly dull and long, until, quite suddenly, it was time to toss our caps into the air. And, just like that,.