I went to the liquor cabinet. Samantha was an amateur corn distiller, and made this rotgut corn whisky moonshine that tasted just like Fritos, actuall.... It was strong stuff, though.I poured myself a very generous tumbler of it, and sat down on one of the armchairs near the fire place. I got up again, still restless, and lit a fire. Then I sat down again, sipping the whiskey. I wish I could consult Rachel about how I felt. She was dead, I had lost her. My head was still whirring, even though the. All our fighters survived though and are heading to Damascus to reload. Good news is we took out ten of their escorts, though it appears they deliberately moved them into the path of our weapons aimed at the unknown." Very well," said Axel. "Take us in again and try to pick off any units screening the unknown."This time it was far worse. Thousands of kilometres away, the battered destroyer Hermes drifted. Her stern was heavily damaged from laser and kinetic fire. Her engines were dead.Just past. And to think, before that day I had not even kissed one girl and now I had kissed 16 of them. Well, for the rest of the pool party I was treated like Superman who had rescued Lois Lane from a burning building.Later in the afternoon the party wound down and the girls started to leave. Each one gave me a kiss goodbye on their way out. I counted 13 goodbye kisses in all. Wait a minute I thought; that means there must be a straggler staying behind figuring Tracy was not about to give me a kiss. "I just nodded, and Mom got up, but before she left, I said, "Maybe we can have more talks like this?"Mom looked over her shoulder and replied, "We'll see. Goodnight, Tucker." Then I walked out, closing my door as she left.I fell back onto my bed and immediately jerked on my tool. It didn't' take long before it was spurting all over my stomach. However, that night as I slept on, another wicked dream about Mom entered my mind. I was right in the middle of seeing her unbuttoning her blouse to.