.”I finished for Chuck, “Cunningham. She’s one tough babe. She was part of the group that I hung around with in school. She was captured and tor...tured over there, and then was able to kill her guards and all the soldiers who had captured her. She freed six other men who were in bad shape and were scheduled to die by decapitation within a day or so. She should have the Medal of Honor for her actions, but you know how that is. Everything is political.”Chuck asked, “Then you don’t have any problem. I wouldn't want youknocking us up at six or something." Hell I had no intention of staying that late. Normally I'm in bed byone, what with the show and everything."Simone looked at me and I frowned slightly. We'd never had a guest stayover and we considered our little apartment as a sort of sanctuary. Itwasn't much but it was ours. The whole family had rallied around withfunds and we'd bought the lease for as long as we were in college withan option to extend it if we stayed on afterwards. It. The Program kid has to be singled out and made conspicuous by her nudity."I wondered (and not for the first time) just how many of these rules really were for my benefit, and how many were because the Program was probably dreamed up by a bunch of full-on perves who got off on embarrassing teens beyond belief. Oh no, we couldn't let the participant feel like she maybe fit in a little.I walked into English before the final bell. I was still hot from what had happened to me outside Homeroom. I. I closed the door and held my breath. She greeted him at the front door as if he were the repair man. She told him the broken shutters had been driving her crazy, and she was so glad to see him. Then she asked him to follow her to her bedroom, where he could get started. The apartment was dead quiet, so it was easy to hear their footsteps transitioning from the carpet of her small living room, to the hardwood of the short hallway, then back onto the carpet of her bedroom. A second later, I.