Still no option apartfrom ?OK?.?OK-OK-OK-take this!? I grinned at the terminal. I pressed Alt+F4 toescape. My machine?s hard drive spun a little and...nothing happened. Ipressed ?Esc?. Same thing.Frustrated, I did the three-finger salute.?God, the thing must be seized!?I gave the machine another chance, pressing ?OK? to see if the same thingwould happen on the ninth page. It did. Since even ?Close Program? had noeffect any longer, and the Start Menu would not even appear on demand, Iangrily. Neither she nor Geoff talked to me. Apparently they had a proposition for the four of us. It seems that they had a few unfulfilled fantasies.Usually, when one of our "friends" approaches us about watching or swinging with us, we brush them off. After all, we zealously guard our privacy. Melinda is a department chair at the university. Between her job and her artwork, Leah is a local celebrity of sorts. Katie is a partner in a successful veterinary practice. I mostly take up space and mooch off. ‘Right. Want the whole story then?’ ‘Yep… but get me drunk first. And, by the way, you owe me an orgasm if I remember correctly?’ He turned stern for a moment. ‘Don’t get demanding Mei Chun. I don’t want you to forget for a moment the nature of our relationship. I’m still blackmailing you and will fuck up your life beyond all recognition if you forget your place.’ ‘Yes sir. I’m just having a bit of fun, ok? It’s been a bitch of a day.’ ‘Sarah told me you did very well and you’ll get your. . which it did in 1992 at the so-called Rodney King LA riots. An unidentified bullet took her life and a huge chunk of my heart. The killer was never found despite my desperate search. Alana deserved justice and I needed closure. We got neither. She was condemned as an instigator. I knew better. To me, even in my heartache, she remained my hero. Someone who couldn't or wouldn't back down from her beliefs. It's now Pride month, another reason for my poignant reflections. The rainbow LGBTQ flag.