‘Lukas,’ I tell you, ‘make love to me.’ Your hand clasps the back of my neck and pulls me to you. Your kiss is fire engulfing my whole life. I...get goose bumps as your hands once more move slowly down my sides, your thumbs catching beneath the hems of my shirt, sliding it slowly up and over my head. Every inch of skin I own is awake and sensitive to this wave of cool air upon it. You are not one to rush anything. (after all, we have waiting twenty years for this, no?) You run your hands down my. ’ ‘By ‘entertain’ don’t you mean show off?’ ‘Ha-ha,’ he said in a wry tone. ‘You’d think you’d be just a little nicer seeing that I’m making you dinner.’ ‘Didn’t you just say you love it when I bust your chops?’ ‘Technically, no I didn’t.’ ‘Alright, counselor.’ Ana raised her hands in surrender and giggled as she voiced her next thought. ‘Tell me. Did you have groupies?’ ‘Well, I didn’t find out until my senior year of high school just how much girls like guitar players and boys in a band—that. "What happened to our plan? Did the old hag not see how we were dressed?I don't want to go through all my classes like this. What can we do?" Hell if I know what happened. She had to have seen us. I could see Kellyand Dunn both cringe when they spotted us. But I can't figure out whatshe's doing. You know the doors to the dorms will be locked shortly, sowe can't go back and change now. We just have to gut it out and regroupat the end of the day." Shit - you know we're going to get hammerd all. Presto, chango! We had water! Moxie celebrated with me in wonder, not expecting to see water gush out of the pump's spigot. Ah, another successful project.It was time to harvest the field corn, which had been left on the stalk until it dried. It would serve the dual purpose of providing food for the humans and the animals as well. Short term storage was on the ear in the shuck; long term storage included the kernels only but at least there was time to do the shucking as other tasks slacked.