Chapter ThreeThe teens took the two-mile hike from the commune to the church the next morning before sunrise so as not to have to walk in the heat of the desert sun. They had made arrangements to have the bikers bring them back after the service, at which time they would have sufficiently recuperated from last night's hangovers. There were twelve of them in all, ten girls and two boys, all of whom came from middle-class homes and were not used to the heavy partying that the bikers encouraged.
It was Mark Excelsior's intent to turn the commune into a city within a city, an alternative existing side-by-side with their parents' world. Excelsior was an intelligent boy who maintained straight A's in order to remain captain of the football team. He had carefully thought out his plan for the fut
