." Easy, easy," Debby said. "It's okay. Delay as much as possible. Let the river you're envisioning come to the top of the banks."Diane panted hard, t...embling from the effort to keep her hips as still as possible to stave off the final crest. She had almost lost the imagery, but when she reestablished it, the river had become a raging torrent close to overflowing its banks."Do you have that in your head now?"Diane nodded quickly, her hands clenching and unclenching, an ache forming inside her. "Do you think there's any chance they might reconsider?" I don't know, Carlie," she replied. "We can always hope right up to the last. But ... well, I hate to say it, but I doubt they well. That think-together of theirs, it's a tremendously powerful processor, something for which we have no comparison. It lets them make almost in­stantaneous decisions, and usually they don't think twice. I really am afraid we're going to have to settle for, well, a consolation prize." I don't want a. The good news was that her social standing was steadily increasing.Just a Sophomore, she was already a fixture at senior parties, and was being invited to the traditional Senior activities, including the Prom and the after party.Somehow, she had expected that Prom would be different. The dance was held at the Country Club, with a large group of them staying at a fancy hotel afterwards.Christie had to beg and plead with her parents, but they finally agreed to let her stay overnight, after she. Julie closed the door to the game room and caught her breath. She loved her brother, and knew she had more than a little ceush on him. Like most modern kids she had an unlimited data plan and had seen more of her fair share of porn. She had been masturbating since she knew what it was. All of her family had been in one fantasy or another. Admittedly pansexual and built like a boy she was gender fluid and vacillated between wanting to be more like her mom and also hoping to stay flat chested.