I picked up the phone and called. Ashley's mom picked up and she said Paul was at Mike's. Great! SO I called my house and a familiar voice picked up. ... told Ashley is was me."Oh hey! How you enjoying my body? I'm starting to love this whole guy thing", she said."Yeah well don't get to attached to my body. I want that thing back", I demanded."Yeah whatever", she said. "Well here's Paul"Paul picked up the phone. "Hello?" Yeah Paul it's me, Ash. I need you to pick me up at Sarah's please" If I. .. In what he saw to be his final moments, Jun's thoughtswere for the first time not revolving around self preservation.He jammed his finger into the comm panel and exclaimed, "There is notime, you'll never make it, get out of here before you are all killed."And the silence returned. Both the navigational pilot and science officerglared at Jun, knowing his last act of chivalry cost them their lives. Hebegan to think that they might kill him in the moments before the hullgave way. Before they. " So ... now?"James laughed. "Give me a few more minutes. I want everything perfect."A shiver of excitement went through me. It wasn't every day that you got to be the first person inside a tunnel built thousands of years before – especially one attached to a strange temple in the middle of the jungle.James slipped out of the tent and I turned back to the four women in the carvings. The hermaphrodite theory didn't hold. The woman were all too old. The penis was incredibly large. No, there was. That crush got a lot more serious and intense once I reached high school.For four long frustrating years, I suffered in silence, having to be sociable and friendly but keeping my desires and feelings to myself. I couldn't let anyone know how I felt about her or how long I had felt that way.It all came to a head one hot summer day. Tommy had gotten summer work with the Department of Transportation as a highway flagger, one of those people that stands on the road with a stop sign and stops.