Jon turned a shade of purple and stormed off biting his hand in anger.After a moment to calm down, Derek grinned at Sandy. "Still looks like the 'Quee... of Mean' can be summoned upon when needed."I'm sorry, but nobody calls my boyfriend a dweeb ... except for me of course," she laughed.Derek gave a mock hurt look and then Mindy did something that surprised him. She leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. "Don't listen to her, Derek. I think you're amazing," she beamed, causing him to. There was no sign of blood on his legs or on his lower clothes. She took an appraising look at what her rear had been resting on. It was larger than what she had expected.Jorgarn caught where she was looking and colored again. He pulled the coverlet back to his waist."Bah," Denae said as she stood. "I spend the night with that thing pressed against me and you get upset when I want to see what it looks like."She leaned forward again and offered Jorgarn another kiss, this time on the lips."Good. Quickly the small split grew wider and the metal gave way with an explosive decompression. The resulting explosion flung him backward from the station into the solar panel array behind him, shattering many of the solar panels and severely damaging it. Quickly bladders in the space suit expanded, effectively sealing the suit just above his elbow. It could do nothing for his arm, which was open to the cold vacuum of space. Nor did it stop the bleeding of his badly torn arm.For a moment he was. The short taxi ride was a boon to my self confidence. If I received no special notice from that gold standard for obnoxious behavior, a big city cab driver, then I was ready to fool anyone. We strode confidently into the hotel lobby (I could stride in high heels now) and quickly located the room where the party was about to begin. I followed a step behind Carol, just now she was the representative of the agency and I was a temp. We entered a virtually empty banquet room where the last of the.