Can we change the subject please?”“Have you heard from Jorge?” Jessica asked.“I haven’t, but Stephanie called him yesterday. He wasn’t any...here near the hotel in San Juan that caught fire. Can we change the subject to something OTHER than death and destruction?”“When are Bethany and Nick going to marry?” Jessica asked.“If it’s that obvious to you, then I’d say soon,” I replied with a smile. “Between the parakeets and the kisses I saw on New Year’s Eve, I’d say it’s only a matter of time. A. It’s easier to maintain lucidity the further you are from what we call the ‘epicenter’.”“The beach, you mean?”“That beach is the closest part of the main island, sure, but it’s been hard to exactly pinpoint without our own boat and some equipment. There are sailors who have been further out. We don’t really know how far away it is or how strong its influence may be at its true center, but I got a ship to take me as far as she’d ever been once.”“Ha!” Xandra says with contemptuous hilarity,. You litterally collapse on the bed, on your front resting your head on yourn hands an within minutes youre asleep. youre woken by a soft tingle up an down your spine, running the full lenght of your back, running from the base of your neck, over your shoulders, slowly lightly running down the curve in your spine an brushed off your bum. then softly returning up to your neck a few moments later causing your whole body to shudder. you keep your eyes closed as the tingling up an down your back. I thought this could be fun, so I closed the door behind me to make it darker. I moved slowly towards her with my arms out, I could not see anything now with the door closed. I found the end of her bed and sat down. “Are you there, I can see you”, she replied I didn’t say a word, I just grabbed her foot. “Come lay with me” she said as she padded the bed with her hand I just sat there, thinking she is going to know it me not Khalid if I move any closer. Come I want you to lay next to me” she.