" After Alice was totally naked in front of Mr. Clark, he had her standstill while her felt her breasts and checked her between her legs again. Then h...e pulled on a rope and rang a bell three times. A woman walked intothe room. "Jane, this is Alice the new maid you heard about. Please measure herfor several new maids' outfits. I will keep working at my desk while youdo that." While Jane was measuring Alice, she said, "Mr. Clark is very good tothe entire staff. He gives us our own private space. So either you shut up andtake it like a man, or I'll ground you for the rest of this year, andbelieve me buddy when I say that is a long time..."Sam looked as if he were going to burst again, but at the mere mention ofbeing grounded he instantly sucked it up with a bitter grunt and lookedaway from his mother with a sneer on his face. "Fine..." the eleven yearold murmured, crossing his arms in defeat. His mother smiled at him andpatted his mop top of curls."Thanks kiddo... Look, I'll make it up. I told them the same thing I’d already told everybody else: That what Adrienne and I had shared had been special and real. Unfortunately, it was over now. Inside the building, my co-workers asked me more of the same. Dayna and Brandi came by for dinner and to make sure I was doing alright. I gave them the same answers I’d given everyone else.Thursday morning, I got asked the same questions, but from fewer people overall.Friday, both the media and my co-workers more or less left me alone. There. The feeling was now almost at his shoulders his thoughts clearer than he had ever known them to be.Myria floated closer just out of reach the feeling now at his shoulders he felt more than before, he could sense that Myria was indeed in a type of prison but it felt different, very strange. Now above his shoulders on his lower neck he felt her being drawn away, this time though as she left he followed her. For what seemed like hours he followed her energy back to where she was, then he was.