...there you know it all now we are swingers."She crushed out her cigarette and looked across the table at me. "Youshocked?" she asked."Eh well yes, I...had no idea." No one does, not even George or anyone around here, we go to parties inthe city, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle all around really." So last night you wanted me to have sex with Gavin as well?" I asked."Not if you didn't want to, we wouldn't have forced you only if youwanted to do it."I lit another cigarette. Melissa was stretched on. " I was getting more than just emotions. I was reading thoughts," Caleb protested.Caleb felt a mental sigh, before the alien explained, in a much put upon tone of thought, "Humans emotions and thoughts are very closely interrelated. Humans are not entirely ruled by emotions, but nearly so. I am working on a theory, about why that is. Whatever the reason, memories are associated with emotion. Your mind is cluttered with information, but to recall a memory, you need an emotional tag attached to. “Alright. I feel like Indian. You want to go--”“I’ll pick where we’re going when I rinse off and dress.” I said.“The Princess Margaret then?” she asked, with a roll of her eyes.“No, I don’t wanna go uptown.” I closed the bathroom door behind me. When I stepped out, Talsy rushed over to dry off my hair. She’d laid out jeans and a t-shirt for me on the coffee table. I dressed, stepped into my shoes, and looked at her.“You alright?” she asked.“Can’t go out with my shoes untied,” I declared. She. Neither Jack nor Kate would admit to their growing love until the night Kate gave herself to him. She was not a virgin but she was not experienced in the ways of making love. ‘I am afraid, Jack,’ she admitted. ‘Afraid I won’t be good enough for you. Please be gentle and understanding.’ That night she understood what it was to taken by a man who could love her the way she should be. Both of them knew there could be no turning back. The next day the Boxers attacked and their world turned upside.