A female voice, rough and gravelly in that way that develops after years of smoking and whiskey, picked up on the other line only to tell you to hold ...or a moment. With a click you hear the voice switch to a bit of music that you'd heard in an elevator at the local mall at least once. With a quick flick of your finger you set the phone on speaker and continued cooking while waiting. A sudden loud click brought your attention back to the call and you picked it up, turning off the speaker and. Camila. “Are you okay?”“Very okay, my Mila,” I said. “I just finished a big bit of work.”“You are happy, then?”“I am.”“I am going to our house,” she said simply, a confident smile on her lips. “You should...”“I’ll be there in a bit.” She left. I walked into the tech room, the corner of which served as our local robotics lab. Yeah, we need more room. It’s coming.Deena and Carlita looked up, smiled. “We’re tying in a new sensor today. It’s just about ready to test,” Lita said. Smiled.“Camila was. Not really. I mean, I had told him that I’d give him just one kiss ... or at least, that was what I was going to tell him, before he started. But now ... oh, now ... I never wanted it to stop. I’d given in ... given up ... melted. And I could tell he knew it! His hands were suddenly everywhere: on my arms and sides and breasts and thighs. His tongue was in my mouth, and his hand was pushing my knees apart, and it was like I was made out of cooked pasta; I had no strength, no will of my own.. I owe you so much already.”“You don’t owe me anything. That’s what’s friends are for.”Mico hesitated a bit, and it took a lot of goading before I was able to get him to give me some of his work.“Er. you don’t have to do this, Sam. I don’t want to make it difficult for you.”I chuckle. “I think you’re forgetting who I am, Mico.”“Oh fine. Thanks so much.”I kept asking to do his work for him, not realizing it was encouraging a feeling of expectation. I told myself that if I kept this up, I might.