I took both bags and asked, “Where do you want them?”“In the pickup with yours,” she said conversationally, turning to get her remaining two b...gs from the house.I stood dumbfounded, for a moment, wondering what she was up to. I placed her heavy bags on the sidewalk to the side of the driveway.Susan returned, carrying her two smaller bags, which she proceeded to toss into the back of the pickup. Then she picked up one of the heavy bags and started lugging it to the pickup.“What are you doing?” I. He backed away from her, sensing her lust matched his own. Two minutes later they were in their car and headed to the club.Argie and John arrived at the appointed time, and were greeted at the door by Doctor Coughlin himself, wearing a black tuxedo."I hope we're not late," John said, just to say something and hide his nervousness."Not at all," Coughlin told him, "Come in, come in. You two are the guests of honor. We wanted to have everyone here when you arrived in order to greet you both. Maybe they'd get taken into another family like Marion had. Or start their own after he qualified for status after six years of Planetary Service.But he really couldn't do that either, could he? If he didn't do his best they'd know. The family, because they know him. And the stupid AI because it'd be able to read the fact that he was holding back. And then nothing he wanted would ever happen.So, he'd give it his best.Decision made! And at about the same time the decision was made, he arrived at. I was just basking in the love Katie was giving me and trying to give as much love back as I could. It wasn’t about lasting a long time, exactly, though we weren’t in any hurry to finish. It wasn’t about anything mystical either. Or maybe it was. Maybe Katie and I can talk about that next week while she’s spending the afternoons at our house after school.Our lust caught up to us in the end and our movements got more intense, but we didn’t accelerate to the crazy pace we had fucked at during the.