They talked for a bit and seemed to really click, when another girl rushed up to Lilly, "Lilly, Jan and Hank just broke up, she's crying and I don't k...ow what to do. Can you please talk to her?" Jake, I hate to run off like this. I'll find you later and we can talk some more." She gave him a quick kiss and dashed off. He could swear he felt her pierced tongue brush his lips, but wrote it off to wishful thinking.The evening started to go downhill from that high point. Jake ended up in a corner. Her family was also a well-to-do, so I was quite sure this would get the nod from everyone.It was a Thursday noon. Shruti was finding the right time to break the news to her mom, but her sister was around. So she was taking her time to talk to her mom alone. After some time, her sister went to her tuition. She was much relieved. She went to her mom.Shruti: Mom, I need to talk to you about something.Sneha: I know, since morning you’re desperate to say something, but waiting for right time. Now. Now when I look back at myself at the age of fifteen, I recall only two pieces of literature that lent my monotonous school life a subtle romantic air: A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust and the Eclogues by Virgil. For a short time I was so fascinated by Eclogue II in which the handsome shepherd Corydon, mad about the beautiful youth Alexis, chases his unobtainable lover around the sinuous valleys of Sicily and, now sunk into the bottomless depth of his melancholy, throws his empty. " The staff? Who'd you get to run the base?" Same people you had." The transformees, the ones that came out with average intelligence? I'm surprised. I thought you'd replace them with men and women better suited to the job. I was too paranoid to hire anybody, male or female, who might challenge me, so I staffed the base with controllable transformees and a few retarded or nearly retarded men to do the heavy stuff." Yeah, I know. I fixed them. This transformation device of yours, when directed.