I opened just a bit of my eyes and saw that she was putting the clothes for drying. When she had hung all of them she returned back to the room and be...ore she could notice I closed my eyes. Again she was standing there and was looking at me. Then she did something which I didn’t anticipate at all. She went back to her room and brought her mobile which had a camera and started taking pictures of me in that position.Hearing the clicking sound the mobile made each time she took a photo, I made out. “That’s okay, I’ll wait.” Kate closed her eyes; evidently any hidden message had zoomed over his head.“No,” she left her seat and walked over to him, kissing him on the lips. This broke her heart, and she could feel the tears well up as she started to sob. “David, he wants me. For the night.” David processed what she’d just said, but he couldn’t look her in the face.“Have you agreed to this?” he barked, his face desperate and clenching his fists, trying to keep his temper.“I haven’t agreed to. .. ?" She stepped up and reached for the Glock, which Lauren surrendered willingly. She looked at me, then dropped the magazine into her free hand and worked the slide, locking it back. In the next motion, she thumbed the slide release, letting it come forward, and then slid the clip home again and racked the slide to chamber a round. She paused for a second and then dropped the magazine again, then cycled the slide and caught the elected round neatly in mid-air. She loaded it back into the. I sat on the bed and slowly picked at my dinner, barely tasting thefood. If this universe were anything like mine, the likelihood ofanother spacecraft flying anytime within the next few years would beremote, especially after a system failure. To think that I could be onthe next spacecraft, or that the parallax event would be there, or mycounterpart would be at the right place at the right time, would beextremely unlikely. Like it or not, I'd come to the conclusion that Iwas stuck here.