You and Mike can ah... 'retire'... but we're sort of stuck with conventional entertainment without one of you to sway the majority vote. Perhaps we co...ld make an entertainment device?"Looking around for ideas, Alicia caught the flash of Kelly's wedding ring. Giggling, the two girls had a whispered confab. Both Kelly and Alicia closed their eyes in concentration. Opening them a moment later, nothing appeared any different.Holding her hand out to admire her ring, as if she hadn't seen it everyday. Once again, Sam knocked on Carly's bathroom door and pleaded for her to come out. Once again, there was no other response than the sound of the shower. Since Carly wouldn't come out, Sam asked to be let in. Surprisingly, the sound of the shower stopped and the door was unlocked. The shower started running again, but at least some progress was made.The first thing Sam noticed was that the shower curtain wasn't in place. The second thing she noticed was what the shower curtain didn't cover. It. “You don’t have to spank me you know? No one will ever know.”“I’ll know.”“Well, yeah, but…”“I want to spank you, Rachel.”He called me by name. I don’t think I had ever been more shocked. I liked the sound of my name coming out of his mouth. “You… you do?”Mark’s hands cupped my face, and he kissed me. “Very much so.”My cheeks flushed, and I stuttered, “Is… isn… isn’t it going to hurt? Promise you won’t hurt me.”His soft chuckle flowed through me, touching dark hidden places. “I can’t promise you. Katherine enrolled at Harvard Medical just as she had done the first time when she had lived in the 1980's in order to earn her PhD for the second time around. When I had told her how sorry I was that she had to go through all that again she had just smiled and said, "This time it's going to be much easier honey. Hell, I already know everything. I'm sure to graduate top in my class." And then with a little mischievous grin she had added, "And this time I don't even have to worry about keeping.