Ginger and Toni arrived at the party around seven, coming strait from work. There were about ten of Gingers friends there, with only one of them Toni ...recognized as a mutual friend from the gym. Toni being a sales secretary, always looked great. She was dressed in a red skirt that stopped, about six inches above her knee, giving everyone a great look at her sexy legs. Her thin, white silk blouse was low cut in the front, exposing a fair amount of her wonderful cleavage. Her nipples stood erect,. “I hope I get gills.”“What?”“You had anal sex with my sister and she gained a giant snake tail. Now you’ve had anal sex with me and I’m hoping that I’ll transform too. I’d love to have gills or even wings! Actually, what I’d really like is a nice kangaroo pouch that I could keep my stuff in. Maybe ass fucking is the key to all of this!”“The silence was nice while it lasted.”“Yeah, but that time is over now. It’s back to annoying you.”Too cheap to call a cab and too lazy to just walk, we waited. I wasn't there for Coley, I was there for Sydney. And Sydney took advantage.Things started to change junior year. It started, actually, at Christmas break. Suddenly, back home, surrounded by the same people that had barely noticed me my whole life-I made friends. I ran into people I had gone to high school with, and somehow found myself holding up my end of the conversation. I even got invited to a New Year's Eve party. When there, I found myself in a heavy make-out session with Tina. Only his complete lack of guile kept me from looking deeper into his records. He seemed to be nothing more than a young man who wanted others to approve of his work.My thoughts turned to how the outage occurred and what might have been accomplished during that time. Once again I was finding it hard to attribute a motive to any of the actions that Linda and I had witnessed since we reached the Success. I understood that this place was one of political infighting, backroom deals and betrayals,.