Official Intelligent Beings: How Our Devices Became Us, And The World Consumed Itself by Josh Greenfield

what to say. You sure do have a way with words, you know? It seems that you’ve developed a passion for expres-sing your feelings beyond what you share with your Quacker following. If I wasn’t so jumbled I would say I’m beginning to think that you actually like me.”
    “Like you, Shera? I think I love you.”
    Shera blushed, “oh Jagz, you are just too silly. You know that? Too silly.”
    “Shera, I’m not messing around. I really do.”
    She cut him off, stopping him from saying what he couldn’t believe he was saying and firmly kissed him on the mouth. They went on to share the most intimate, slow, romantic, and sensual lovemaking session that any two people could share—such raw passion and openness, eyes locked onto one another as though they were staring into each other’s souls. Hands firmly grasped onto the back of each other’s head, their lips attached as if to create one human with two symmetrical sides. They rolled around, connected through love, on the ground for what seemed to last for hours, though really only five minutes or so.
    “Lets just lay here forever and forget about the world around us,” said Jagz.
    “Wouldn’t that be nice? Wouldn’t it? But there is so much to do. I mean look at you. You are becoming a cewebrity! And not only that, but you have information that your ever-growing base of fans simply needs to hear! As much as I would love to melt away into nothing and stay in that nothing forever, there are bigger things going on in this world than you and me, and pretty soon, if what you say comes to fruition, there will be no world to live in anymore. There will be no more of this, no more making love. The very notion of love will cease to exist.” said Shera.
    “I know. I know. But I just can’t shake this feeling right now. I need to hold onto it. I can’t let it go. I need you again. I need to be inside you.”
    “Jagz, we will have plenty of time for that. First you should really consider sharing the information about Ani Rudh and the Aliens with your follo-wing. It will take some adjusting and they need to know!”
    “It’s just, well, it’s just hard to explain. I know that I need to, but I feel blocked. I feel like it just isn’t the right time yet. I just need some time to think about it, okay?”
    Noticing that Jagz was beginning to get frus-trated, Shera offered a suggestion. “You know what, don’t even worry about it. Listen, I want to show you something. You know how you asked me where I got that orange, but I wouldn’t tell you?”
    “Yes. It’s been eating me alive. Are you going to tell me?”
    “No.”
    Jagz sighed.
    “But I can show you.”

 
    Chapter 12.
     
    Shera grabbed Jagz’s hand and began to run away from the city, deeper into the park, west towards an area he had never been before. They made their way through the bushes and, just as they cleared the last bush, Shera got on the tips of her toes and searched for something, moving her head from side to side, squinting her eyes, peering in the distance. Seeming to have spotted some-thing, Shera continued searching, touching all of the trees as though feeling for something she couldn’t see.
    “Here it is! I was afraid I’d lost it,” she said.
    “Lost what?” asked Jagz.
    “The secret keypad to get below.”
    “Below? What do you mean below?”
    Just as he finished his last words Shera pressed some buttons on a keypad and inserted her tongue. A secret passageway opened with an elevator door.
    “How did you? What did you just? And your tongue was able to?” Jagz trailed off in total bewilderment.
    “Girls got to have some more secrets to keep things fun,” said Shera with a confident, playful smile.
    They got in the elevator and Shera pressed another combination of buttons. The doors shut and the elevator went down.
    “Are you sure about this, Shera? Do you even know where it goes? We could get…, I don’t know if this is safe.”
    “Oh, it’s safe alright. How do you think