John took his wife's hand and led her back to Thomas. "I think my wife wants to go home," he said to Thomas with a smile.Thomas smiled back and saw th... excitement on Amy's face. Her eyes were glazed over with lust.The two men led Amy to the car. John drove. As soon as they were off the parking lot, Thomas and Amy were kissing. John tried to concentrate on driving but his eyes kept glancing over. When he saw Thomas unbuttoning the front of Amy's dress, he almost ran off the road. Then, he forced. "If we had to make a decision today, both of us would stay or both would leave. No matter what that decision might be, there would be serious emotional pain and potential adverse consequences. It could affect our future friendship with the people of Perth. If I stay, my grandfather will not be happy nor anyone in the family. It would be devastating for my grandparents, all three of them, to lose their daughter and her entire family. They have other children and grandchildren but I'm the only. Even to expand upon them.Even though Gareth Boase couldn’t see the bigger picture, it was enough for Graham Thorn that the older man knew the Confederacy was a lie. “Have you never seen a science fiction movie? Even as a child?” Thorn asked, all humour gone from his face again.“They never made sense to me,” Boase said. “I just could never get that suspension of disbelief. Know what I mean? Gravity was all wrong. Movement in space?” He shook his head. “Useless. Unrealistic and totally. I stay in my friend Summer’s room whenever I can, but that leads to a whole different set of problems.’ ‘Problems?’ ‘Problems as in Summer plays for the other team and… and… well I don’t spend much time with boys…’ This last was said with a slightly sad look in my direction. I’d love to say I said something clever and played the whole thing off, but I’m afraid that’s not what happened. What happened is that it felt like someone had sucker punched me, both figuratively and literally, though.