She pressed her lips to my neck, and I felt them curl upward into a smile. ‘Love,’ she whispered, her lips moving sensuously against my neck, the...word sounding particularly strange yet enticing given her accent. ‘Love is good.’ We cuddled long into the night, kissing and touching with a greater, deeper tenderness given that we were officially, finally, girlfriend and boyfriend. ***** When I awoke in the morning, it was still dark, with the first hint of daylight peeking around the edges of. “Probably,” he said, leaning in for a kiss. “In about forty years.”Driving back home on Sunday afternoon, Elizabeth was wearing the same shirt she’d worn on their boat outing the previous night. With her seat reclined, she kept the shirt unbuttoned so that Tommy could touch her whenever he wished.“Do you have anyone you’d like to invite to a football party at the house?” she asked.“I guess that depends on who you’ll be inviting. Will it be your regular crew?”“I’m not certain,” Elizabeth said. He tries to be surreptitious, sliding his hand over to my side of the car. I focus on the road, pretending not to notice as Jimmy clumsily tries to get to my own waistband. After some fumbling he manages to get his fingers into my shorts, withdrawing in surprise as he encounters my bush. I glance over and see the mix of curiosity, confusion and horror on his face.“I’m a woman, Jimmy, we’ve got hair too”“But Miss Santos, all the women I’ve seen in- I mean, all the other women I’ve seen don’t. ”Hunter of Bear and Tracker agreed with me, so we left for home. If we did not return soon, we were afraid that the women would worry about us and try to find us. None of us wanted them wandering over the snow in a useless search, so we hurried home as fast as we could move. Dammit, before we left tomorrow, I was going to have the replicator produce some radios so that we could report what we were doing and the women could do the same.Snow was waiting for us at the cave entrance and jumped into.