Once he was done I stood up and faced him as we both rinsed off. My face was inches from his and it came to me that we had never kissed before. Althou...h I wanted to feel his lips on mine, I was afraid that simple act would change our relationship from purely sexual to one where we felt something for each other. So instead I stepped from the shower and began toweling off.Ponte:What the fuck just happened? If there was one thing that I wanted to do was fuck Mackenzie and here, at this time, I as. In the months that followed, despite the halt of Dominion’s advance, the exodus continued. Everyone in the eastern half of Panama, on the other side of the canal, flocked towards South America. South America itself was being emptied, almost everyone either boarding ships and planes to escape the hemisphere, or simply running as far south as possible. Of course, there were plenty of people who believed they could hide. They hoped to disappear into the jungles and deserts, to live their lives. “What do you do?” she inquired. “I work in media communications,” I replied. “I am the voice of the small business when they need media advice and media help.” Jennifer said she was a real estate agent. I sat behind my desk as she stood in my doorway and we chatted. She was just moving in, temporarily, as her permanent offices were still being constructed. She fingered her pearl-drop necklace as we chatted, unwittingly drawing my attention to her chest. Even though her breasts were. By the next Fall Equinox we’re gonna be home.’ ‘And he’s upset about that?’ ‘Yeah, real upset, ’cause he doesn’t wanna leave Danubia. He was kinda hoping that we’d stay here, but…I guess he got this dream telling him it wasn’t gonna be that way…that we’re gonna have to go back to the US.’ ‘Did he tell you why?’ ‘Yeah. He said we’ve got a lot we have to accomplish in our lives, but in Danubia we’ve done what we need to do, so there isn’t any point in us staying past next summer. He told me.