You just wait young lady, you will be grounded for months.”I rolled my eyes as she once again tried to use dad against me. It never works, but she ...eeps trying. Mom isn’t the brightest bulb in the chandelier. I learned a long time ago that if I push her long and hard enough, I’ll get what I want.“Kait, you tried to bribe a cop. Do you know what trouble you’re in?” She asked in an overly dramatic tone.“Yeah mom, you keep reminding me every couple of minutes. Can’t we call Mr. Bains, our. He was highly pessimistic about that action being anything even close to what he might have himself proposed.This was not, however, the time to take that up with Miller, not yet. He simply joined the major in observing the situation below.The two alien groups had made even greater progress than he'd anticipated. They were now within a mere 50 or 60 klicks of each other, and continuing to move rapidly nearer. Close enough already that they could think together fully, he thought. It is only that. Kathy was sat at the corner of the front row. Alone. Daniel hadn't come to rehearsal today. He'd texted me earlier asking me to make something up for him since he wanted to finish the video game he was playing and didn't want to come in. I was looking at her. "Go on then" Travis said to me, smiling.I just got up and made my way down. I didn't know where this new-found confidence had come from but by god I was happy it was here. I walked up and sat down next to her, smiling at her before looking. The accumulation of the emails and the talks about our stranger-to-stranger encounter has electrified my whole body. I see this image of you knocking on my door, pulling me into your arms. We kiss as your fingers caress every inch of me. We soon become a frenzy of discarded clothing and end up on the bed. Later that day I see you online. We chat and I type,” Are we still meeting Sunday?” You than type, “I do not know, according to your email you need a down to earth fucking now, how’s about me.