Plain and simple, I just wanted to fuck her, though it was true I was holding myself back for similar reasons as what she thought. However, what would... she think if she knew I had the hots for my older friend? Would she think it was weird? Or think I was a pervert? Not that I’d ever share that secret with her in a million years.“Don’t be sorry,” she replied gently. “It just means I need to tell you more about myself, so you can like that too.”Thinking about it, I realized I wasn’t as uninformed. He’s poor, he’s black, and he barely got into the school, but his dad works for a bud of mine, who recommended him to me, and after talking to father and son, I interviewed the kid one on one officially and put him on the payroll.“Since I was finally forced to buy out Benson’s last summer, I realized I could use a researcher not just another gofer. And here was a good kid that I wanted to work for me, doing research, and okay, some important gofer work. And, he’s a biology major, go figure.. "Isn't that the greater miracle? We programmed Spook, or the computer where he was born, to think, sort of. He just woke up and started thinking for himself." My God! Is it— is he the only one?" Just him." Who else knows about ... Spook?" You now. Me. That's it." Nobody else?" she demanded."Well, Spook knows, of course. That's three of us." 'Spook knows, '" she echoed. "'The Shadow knows.' God, what a silly name. Why'd you come up with that?"I laughed. "He spooked me when he first showed up. I. Guess you want to get Loose in Dat?” This new witticism seemed to have induced a near orgasmic state of rapture within my arch nemesis, Lewis. His eyes bulged, his veins popped and his entire frame was reduced to a quivering mass. My patience already exhausted I stepped past him. As I walked onward, I could still hear his gales of cruel laughter echoing in my ears. With a tired shrug, I dismissed him from my thought as easily as drawing breath. After walking for a period of time, stuck in a.