"You washed it all in one load?" I started laughing."Yeah, want me to do yours?" he said with a grin sitting back down."I'll pass. Jeans, briefs and p...lo in one load." I shook my head."I wasn't going to make 3 loads with one thing each now..."I snuggled back into his side."Careful now, flower scented soap, shampoo and now my detergent, you're gonna start smelling like a girl soon." I said inhaling deeply. There were the flowery scents, yes. but more. Something of his base scent that just said,. I also helped out with decorateing his new flat,. to which my then fella kept moaning you spend more time with steve than me. which was true in away but after almost ten years together he left.. i was very depressed ,, to which steve noticed and said come on your a good looking fella ya soon find someone else , some how he always knew what to say to me just at the right time to cheer me up.. At the time he was going out with a girl but a week after me becomeing single so did he ?? .. then one. We’re good friends.“Lastly, there’s Penny and me. Her mother, my late wife, died almost three years ago from some weird autoimmune thing that hit her like a truck and destroyed her in less than a week. I alluded to her passing last night, but that’s pretty much the complete story without the gory details. I think it affected all of us. Life is so short, so we tend to grab and hold onto it as best we can with all our might. Thus, you can expect some unconventionality here from time to time as. "We asked them to, but apparently they were in a fight with some of the Zytol ships and couldn't drop their shields to try to tele-port us to safety," replied Carson.This was the first time that Ben had heard that the Scout needed to lower her shields in order to use her tele-port technology. The Rebecca didn't have that problem of course, as Elise used the abilities given to her by the metals to transport people. Ben wondered if this might explain how the Scout had been damaged — maybe Marlon.