It felt a bit like cheating, but there were more important matters to consider. Like Peter. I had become bold enough to touch him now, small touches o... his arm. We were sitting on a big soft couch in the soft nestroom, sipping tea. I maneuvered closer, took his hand, lay my head on his shoulder. Peter I have never in my entire life felt so close to someone. Possibly with my mother early early before my memories began. Certainly not after. The chords were larger and more majestic than what was. “Great Josh, and yours?”“It’s alright. Looks like you have been living in the sun. You have a great tan.”“Thanks. Yes, I spend a good bit of time at the beach or jogging.”“Well, I hope you don’t have any tan lines.” He said with a giggle.“Actually, I don’t”, I said laughing but also telling the truth.“I think you need to prove that to me.”“OK, when?”He stood silent for a minute, looking at me and, I guess, trying to determine if I was serious or just messing with him. “There’s a party tonight,. He came up twice within my 2 hours to take calls and I figured that he wanted to be near me. ( how boastful of me to say so ) I casually cleaned the counters and fixed files as he chatted nonchalantly with the unknown caller. I could feel his eyes burning through me as my back was turned towards him. Him being barely 3 feet away, I enjoyed the sexual arousal that was yearning within me as I bent over to pick up a return slip. I slowly wondered if he was feeling something too. For the next 25. “I got kind of used to having Ashana as our base of our operations,” Dana said wistfully as the arid reddish-orange planet’s surface grew small behind them on the holographic display in the bridge. As they left orbit, the planetary map was replaced by the system map, casting a soothing yellow glow over the bridge from the representation of the Ashana star.“You seemed to be very popular amongst the Ashanath engineers,” Jade observed, glancing at the redhead and offering her a friendly wink.“I.