"Race you out to the car," called Melissa happily to me."No more rushing around today for you young lady!" reprimanded Mum. So Melissa took me gently ...y the hand as dad opened the front door for us. Then as we skipped daintily down the steps towards the car, we were brought to an abrupt halt by the arrival of my best friends! "Is Billy indoors, Melissa?" asked Tom as my confidence took another tumble! But while the boys were talking to my sister, I slipped quietly past them down the steps and. The cruise ship must have been in the Mens Mundi as well. Something tickled his thoughts. He thought he recalled waking up at one point to a smoke-filled cabin and the ground rushing up to meet them.Someone tried to kill them. He didn’t believe for a moment that it was a mechanical failure.“Everything is all right,” Gloria’s voice soothed him again when he became agitated and the heart rate monitor picked up its infernal beeping. “Wake up, Asshole. You’re still alive.”He wished he could see. ’ Lexi came walking out of the side door carrying her bag. She seemed happy and relaxed. There was a bounce to her step. ‘Russell?’ April said quickly. She finished with her hair, then wrote down a number on a piece of paper from her clipboard, biting her tongue in concentration. She tore it off and gave it to me. ‘I’m sorry if this is weird, but I’ve been wanting to talk to you about this for a while now and now it’s important. A Rose of Water in the Body of the Sea? I need to talk to you. . yet, or you.” At this point I am sure he's into it but his smirk is telling more than he's letting on. He knows more... and I sense a plan hatching. “Let's go back to your place since your wife has generously invited me and you for the day. Don't worry about work today; I got it covered. Besides, I think you will earn today's labor.” Check and mate. I don't even speak; he just takes control and now we are heading back to my house for what I can only imagine to be a fun day. My fantasy is.