I felt depressed and I went back into the living room and lay back down on the couch. I weighed in my mind what had just transpired and came to the co...clusion that a clear conscious was better than a relationship with my sister. I realized that this was probably the most selfish thing I had ever done, but I didn’t know what else to do.I eventually fell back to sleep and was woke-up a few hours later by a weight shifting on the couch. I opened my eyes and found Bethany sitting on the edge of the. And why are you dressed like a hooker?” Kathy looks at him, shocked that he would say something like that and slap him across the face and say “I’m not a hooker!” Rick gets a wild look in his eyes and says “You shouldn’t have done that, now I’m going to have to treat you like a suspect because you assaulted me. Turn around and put your hands on the wall!” “Why, I haven’t done anything?” “Well for starters I don’t know who you are and it looks like your stealing stuff. It’s my. ”“The Loegrians still have them targeted,” Ilzik noted.“Yes, I suspect Roxanne or Arch has their full complement up on the top of the fortress,” I nodded.“We’re digging down, but so far we cannot detect any underground structures to shelter us or get us out,” Nell added.“We’re also totally cut off as I can’t raise anyone mentally, nor are the radios working,” I admitted. “Until we know what’s going on, just keep an eye on them and don’t provoke them.”“Yes, John,” the trio replied.As I observed. "No." I said, "I have some time." What now?" he asked. I replied, "It's up to you."We walked over to a bench over looking the beach and sat and down to watch the ocean. It was beautiful. It was cold and he held me tightly.After a few moments, he grabbed my chin and gently turned it toward him. "You look beautiful." he said.He made me blush, it had been a long time since anyone said that. He moved slowly toward me and gave me a long, passionate kiss. We were sittinng on the bench, on a freezing.