On Boom Boom Day we only had theone survival pod---bought just after the atomic nightmare of theIndi/Paki War---and my dad made sure I got it. He didn...t even mention howI was dressed (the strike hit at EXACTLY the worst time- and despite thehorror and chaos of what was going on I couldn't help note the parallelsto your wonderful story GOING DOWN ON THE TITANIC!) except to say, "I'mproud of you, whatever the hell you are!" right as he sealed the hatch.That was the last I saw of any of them.It. She still had the same smooth olive skin. She was a little bit fuller in figure, as we all are, but not more than normal. And her face was still round and sweet without being too cherubic. And she still had the same smile in her mouth and eyes.We inched closer to each other, and she started excitingly chatting about the weather. When it came time for her stop, she spontaneously grabbed my arm and said ‘I want to finish catching back to my place, we can have a quick cup of coffee’I actually had. After that, when she had been at a slumber party where girls were kissing each other to practice for eventually kissing an actual boy, she’d kept her mouth shut about her session with Drew, but had gone along like everyone else, and had been considered a “natural” at kissing. When she told her brother the next day, they had roared with laughter, and made in-jokes about it for months afterward.They spent a lot of time together now, whether on double dates or just the two of them, and she was. She didn't hate this Becky Stone. She imagined that Lena had done something to her to cause the woman to seek revenge upon her. Her and that girl Shasta. She had met Shasta before her conversion and found her to be a pleasant young girl. She caught her looks of lust toward her but she maintained her sense of distance never asking to have sex with her. Lisa believed that Lena hooked up with Shasta since the sisters broke from each other.Tim and Emma could hardly believe their eyes seeing his.