.?" You, um, left your phone out while you were taking a nap, so I wentthrough your contacts," Will replied. "C'mon, don't get mad. Whydidn't you te...ll your friends today was your birthday?"I couldn't believe he actually went through my phone. I probablywould've been more upset had he done it for evil instead of good. Hebrought my friends together, so I guess I really couldn't complain."I guess I didn't wanna make it a big deal, you know?" I was staring atthe floor, as I was wont to do. She started to loosen up a bit and laughed once while they were on it. She picked more rides and laughed even more. She must have forgotten everything that was troubling her in her life because for the first time Shay was having fun. They rode all the rest of the day and half the night. Shay especially liked the roller coasters and they rode them several times. They talked a bit about trivial things and Kale discovered that she was very smart for an 18-year-old girl who never finished school.. I never saw them work in a conventional sense. Roger and I sat down in the living room with the big shop show window looking out into the hustling bustling street, and Nin brought us out nice cold bottles of water and then disappeared. Roger looked me over expectantly and asked what I thought of it all. He grinned at my discomfort and unease at my sensory overload and said I’d be used to it in a few days. He let me rest a bit and so, as suddenly as I’d arrived, I was alone in a strange house in. Tents of all shapes and sizes stretched off in every direction into the surrounding trees.The black SUV rolled gently to a halt, the roar of the engine piercing the quiet of the night, then slowly dying away. After a couple of minutes the passenger-side door opened and out stepped the figure of a woman, naked, bald, tattooed, and collared. Jane looked around apprehensively, feeling eyes on her from every direction, shivering a little from the cold of the night. She felt lonely and exposed, but.