"I said, get up on your FUCKIN' KNEES." He grabbed my left arm to pull me up and I shrieked in pain. That was the arm I fell on earlier and it was sti...l terribly sore. I could tell it wasn't broken, but something felt out of place. He positioned me on my knees in front of him and I felt my long sleeved shirt slip down over my breasts again. They hadn't taken it off when they zip tied my hands behind me, and I was taking great comfort in having that material over my skin again. Chris had his. . stay."Okay... "Jen, you still have to wake up. Have some water, clean your teeth ... that sort of thing." What the hell was I to do? Jen wasn't some ... no-strings fuck-buddy. And ... she was inebriated, to say the least. I left her on the couch and fetched a glass of water."Jen ... drink. Please."Her eyes opened and she peered up at me. "You want me to drink?" Just some water, Jen." Oh ... okay ... Boss..." Her hand rose and waved uncertainly in the general vicinity of the glass. I put it in. "They didn't even ask who threw the water balloons."Gina said, "That's right. They didn't even ask."The whole time in the vice-principal's office, all anyone had wanted toknow was if there had been anyone else with us when we left campus andwhere we went. None of us volunteered any more than Sarah already had,because none of us wanted to be tattletales or narcs or anything likethat, but it never came up. You were hit by water balloons from Godseemed to be the general thrust of the matter. . Warning, all A.I. functions shutting down to re-boot." Came Tempro's voice.Kimison shook his head who knew that the same program from Celeste would work here. He only had a few minutes at most as he started to rapidly type more complex functions on the screen. Finally finished, he donned the head set, then hit the activation button.It wasn't an alarm, Tempro nor anything tangible that caused Rayburn to jerk awake. It was a feeling of incredible pain in his head. He almost made it to the door of.