"Stop right there, David," I said in a harsh whisper holding out my hand towards him palm flat out. "The fuck I will..." he started to say as he cont...nued tugging up his shorts. "Stop right there,” I repeated, “If I scream you will be the pervert here, sneaking in to look at me and jerking off right next to me." He froze, his worry written all across his face. He was already losing his erection and I didn't want that. "Don't worry," I whispered. "I don't want you to stop, I want you to carry. Mi. Capital: AtlantaGovernment: Christian theocracy with a legislative consultative assembly (similar to Iran)Legislature: unicameral Judiciary: Criminal, Appellate, Christian Supreme Court Geography: Bounded by a contentious border with the “secular” North, a ravaged Gulf Coast, and a no-man’s land in the Mid-West, several years after its founding the SCR is in many ways a nation in decline. With most of its male population fighting skirmishes and heavily dependent on food and energy exports. But everybody calls me Hutch. I recognize Jo. You must be Stoney. Key talks about Jo's white boy all the time." I'm guilty," I said as I shook his offered hand."Watch, Stoney, Hutch ain't a trumpet player." Key chuckled."Key, darlin'" Hutch said, "Be nice!" Oh, I am nice," Key said. "This is Jo's boyfriend..." Not any more," Jo interrupted.Key's face fell. "You're not breakin' up, huh? Jo, he's..." My husband," Jo said. "Stoney is my husband." No joke?!?!" Congratulations," Hutch said."Yeah,". I found myself driving to work really looking forward to seeing Alex each day. Yesterday we shared a joke that broke the professional ice, and I've found that Alex will come to my office and ask me to join him for a coffee each time he goes to the staff room. We often get coffee and sit outside alone to talk. At first it was about work, the role, upcoming challenges, but slowly it has turned to more personal topics about life, family, experiences, aspirations. These gestures in themselves are.