" He took a breath. "My name is Charlie. I live on the south side of town, and I do construction." His hands shook slightly, and he continued. "I just...feel like we have a legit friendship, and I wanted to show it. Don't be all weird about it :p."He tossed his phone aside after sending the message, and started up Cyberpunk to distract himself from the vulnerability that he now felt. But that only partially worked, and it was in the back of his mind for the entire twenty minutes until he got a. "I heard several sighs of relief from the marines."Anything else?" I asked the question in the tone of somebody who either gave up on life, or somebody secure in the knowledge of untouchable power and bored with it all.Funny how two such different feelings had the same tone.Admiral Brent looked like he'd rather order me keelhauled. "No. Just get that thing out of my sight." Ok. Joe, disengage tertiary and quaternary shield generators. Also disengage secondary, tertiary and quaternary weapon. That set a pattern, I worked sixteen to twenty hours a day for four days. The engine had a lot of build up that had to be cleaned and in a couple of cases, milled off. I made the adjustments I needed to and put the engine together.I turned from the feed line and found the captain, the first officer, the old engineer and several others standing there. The captain gestured and the old engineer started checking the engine as I stepped back and watched nervously. The old Kaire finally turned to. "Cori frowned. "Just happened? I know Tony is almost every girl's wetdream and that you've been giving him serious puppy dog eyes since thesemester started. I just thought you'd be a little stingier aboutgiving up your v-card. Guess I was wrong."I shook my head again. "I didn't mean for it to happen, Cori. Not likethat. Not there. We were just kissing and touching. Then we, uh, did alittle more."She gave me a hard look. "Steph, you knew what you were getting into. Imean, you've known Tony a.