..” Alaina blushed ever so slightly. “The one where you were licking me. But the first one where you were kissing me was pretty good, too.”Laura...gave her a quizzical look, the area around her lips glistening. “But I was just licking you.”Alaina blinked, feeling a surge of heat pass through her. That was real?“As for kissing you, though,” Laura said. She licked her lips. “We haven’t really done that yet, right?”Alaina stared at the other girl’s moistened lips. She licked her own. “Not if you. He also knew that, however long it might be until he saw her again, he would forgive her. She had already asked his forgiveness, last night, before even telling him why she might want it.He decided he did love her, after a fashion. He also knew he could never live with her. The complexity of her mind and her devious methods of solving problems would drive him nuts. She simply had way too much ambition for him to want to be partnered with her.Jake woke up and looked around. He had fallen asleep. The next morning, when it was still somewhat dark, you awoke to find yourself alive and well, but two things were different. You weren't alone, and you were no longersafely tucked away in the tree's branches. A strange creature was peering at you from one of the nearby trees, with others not far from the pair of you."Orcs!" you shouted out, recognizing them by their description. "The man-flesh awakes! But is it a tark? Or a strawhead?" their leader hissed at the others.Its companions looked at. "This discussion was going only to a bad ending. I didn't want Jennifer on a big guilt trip when she was trying to recover. I said firmly, "Listen, both of you. It is not possible to plan the past. Maybe we'd do it differently if we did it again, but what is done is done. Perhaps I should not have agreed to go along with that scheme you and Rachel hatched, but I did." I looked at them both. "As long as we keep what goes on in here to ourselves, we need not worry." You don't think I'm an awful.