" How long do you think that's going to take?" asked Bert."It took us a couple of days to unload when we got here but that was because we were using t...e Galileo shuttle. With that thing you've got it shouldn't take us more than five or six hours to get everything aboard." Professor," said Bert firmly, "You haven't got that long. We need to be out of here in three hours, tops." Why?" she asked, her lips compressing as she stared at the marine.Bert took her arm, not brutally but she wasn't going. We werereally enjoying spending time together but it feltlike brother and sister more then anything else.They say that if people live together long enoughthey can start to pick up each other's traits. Myhair had always been long but it was usually prettyunkempt - I just normally pulled it back into aponytail each morning. Ann taught me how to wash itproperly, how to brush it out while drying it andfinally convinced me to get it dyed at the salon wewent to get our hair cuts. The hair coloring. They dragged her with ferocious, enslaving resolve across the plush purple carpet, then up the brief stairs into the secluded bedroom with its large round bed and bright red sheets. Now she was struggling and squirming and kicking in something akin to panic."Stop it, you silly little bitch! You'd better do as we say," said Carter, shoving some photographs under her nose. "Don't make us tie you up again, or we'll show these to your high- and-mighty mother."Ellen shook her long blonde hair around. He mumbled something I didn’t get.“Then, tomorrow morning, after a good sleep, you will go home to tidy yourself up. Since everything is closed because of the holidays, I’ll give you a nice bunch of flowers I have upstairs in my room, you’ll bring it to her door and say you’re sorry. She will definitely fall for it.”He nodded, but stayed outside for at least one more hour. I went back inside to go on with singing and playing.There was a lot of dancing and singing that night. At least for that.