.."I watched as she got in her car and then backed out of the driveway. It was strange how making love and the passage of time had changed our relatio...ship. She was no longer the fantasy girl. I had lived that fantasy. Now, she was just a beautiful female friend. I waS, of course, still attracted to her. But the desperate, submerged longing was gone.I guess I was growing up.Over the next few weeks, our family fell into our habitual routines. Danielle was back to calling me squirt and we were. I turned to grab her duffle and lifted it onto the port transport cart with mine as she climbed in. In the distance the huge evergreens seemed to call me. They were what had made me choose this colony to settle on. I had already sent our documents to the port customs and had a colony agent waiting to show me ... us several sites.The transport slowed to a walk at the gate and I jumped off and turned to catch the two duffles Care tossed me. She jumped down and followed as I walked towards the. Is this going to be a regular thing for you two?” he smiled as he held his garden hose like it was a dick in his hand and watered his hedges. The hedges were well watered and didn’t need watering, but he did it anyway just to pass the time until we stopped at his house to chat.“It might be, depends on how much money you are willing to pay,” Miss Claire said. She normally said sarcastic things, but this was the first time she offered my body for money. I felt even more like a whore than I had. Mom was tiny. He hit me in the side of the head and knocked me clean across the lounge room. I couldn't hear for hours nor could I move because I was too dizzy. Aside from beltings, which were Dad's idea of discipline, that was the only time he ever hit Mom or me but it still was terrifying. Rebecca did not talk back to Dad.Dad started:"Rebecca, you have three lovers. That idiot boyfriend of yours, your brother and me. You have more sex in a week than most girls do in a year. You are only with.