canceled at the dance studio where she worked. She walked in normally, put her things in her locker and kept her hand hidden when she went out to greet the other instructors and students. When one the owner of the studio asked her how her weekend had been, she produced the big diamond on her hand. “ Holy Mother of God!” the studio said looking at the ring. “That thing is gigantic!” “ He took me out to dinner last night and asked me if I wanted to marry him,” Jada proudly announced. “ I’m guessing you agreed?” another dance instructor asked when she walked up. “Whew, put that thing down, the reflection from it is blinding me!” Everyone crowded around to see it. And then all the students wanted to see it. And then all the mothers of the students who called all their friends who wanted to see a picture of it on a social network. Within an hour the photo of her diamond was flying across the internet. By the evening it was featured on the a few news stories and Jada decided to have it put into a safety deposit box. David went out and bought her a smaller ring she could wear out daily.David began to worry as the wedding date approached. He decided to have a small wedding with a judge for the time. The larger one would have to wait. He wanted the world to know he’d married her in advance of the baby and she wasn’t “trapping” him or anything else so idiotic. The tabloid press would run any kind of absurdity if they smelled a scandal. He worried about their future. Plenty of computer empires had crashed over the years and nothing guaranteed his would last. At night, he would lay awake watching her. She looked so beautiful and content in the darkness, with the light from a night lamp supplying the only illumination. He kept thinking about his child and how important it was that they leave some kind of legacy to the world. He started thinking about the thermonuclear power project that Jada’s professor had talked with him about looking into. It became more and more of an obsession with him. David was convinced the energy needs of earth could not be met by the current methods. Geothermal, wind, and solar power were too soft and unreliable. Nuclear fission reactors were just too damned dangerous. And the current methods, using petrochemical fuels, were just too polluting and inefficient. Not to mention it might run short in the near lifetime. He felt he had to do something and the pilot plant down in the Florida Keys was worth looking into. David had one of his employees look into the pilot plant which was under construction. The employee was a college intern from a prestigious school who was doing market research for David’s company. He pulled her off the project of finding new dating sites to acquire and told her he wanted to know everything possible about Dr. Ron Simmons, the renegade former government scientist who felt he could have the pilot up and running in a few years. He’d attracted some prestigious donors, but most of the people in his field didn’t think he had a chance of getting the plant operational unless he had access to a lot more money. Jada was forced to cut back her teaching at the dance academy. Her pregnancy showed early, which made her proud, but caused some basic imbalances in her body form. She was still able to work as an instructor. This was helpful to her since Jada didn’t want to give it up; dance had been an important part of her life from an early age. She felt the movements had been helpful for her to get through school and an important part of her success and dealing with the death of her parents. Her school work was going to suffer, but she could still rearrange the assignments, she needed to finish the work she had to do. There would be some work in the high-energy lab which she would need to postpone, but nothing too complicated. Her professors were supportive in what she was accomplishing. David agreed to shuttle her to and from college up to the time she