“But that wouldn’t have happened in a *thousand* years, let alone fifty, no matter what the contract says! He’s so big and nasty and smells like...a–” The scent of scorching approached my nostrils. “Your potatoes are burning,” I said. Her eyes opened wide and she turned to stir them. “What contract are you talking about?” I recalled that he had said the Devil’s promises were worth nothing. “You mean…his contract with Hell? Is that really–?” “It’s not like he doesn’t deserve his job, no matter. I was 18 when my life changed forever. My dad ran off with his young secretary and my mom was devastated. I had the invite to move to Las Vegas with him, but I saw how low my mom was and decided to stay (this could have possibly been the worst decision of my life). Things seemed to get better for the both of us; my mom was dating again and having fun. I had a new girlfriend that I could have fun with whenever I pleased. Life seemed to be great. Then it happened I found out that my mom was. He was holding the reigns now, and she knew it as well as he did. She dropped him back down, loosing a long sigh and running her claws through her hair in exasperation.“Alright, what do we do?”“Well, I don’t know about you, but I don’t fancy crawling into an enclosed space with a reactor that could go critical at any moment. Might as well stick my head in a fucking microwave. The aft section has no atmosphere anyway, it’s open to space, so I say we EVA along the outside of the hull and trigger. I felt his Breath in my Neck as he started to move his head towards it.“What are you doing there?” I asked him.He took one hand off my shoulder, held his index finger right in front of my mouth to signal me to stop talking.My heart started beating faster in anticipation of what I thought was going to happen right then.His Lips hit my Neck; he started to kiss me gently. My body was still shivering because of all this, it was such a perfect moment, the night was so clear, and his kisses drove me.