You're not my first girlfriend, Jilly." I might be your last," I told him, and Ruhk laughed, pushing me towards the bathroom so I could get cleaned up...for school. It wasn't very large or anything and the only part of the place not built of wood, but rather molded plastic like someone had stolen a porta-shower from some beach and mounted it in the tree house."You don't need the toilet," he said over my feeble protests. "Just piss in the shower. Hurry up." Don't you have parents?" I asked him,. "Hanna? I'm glad I caught you. I'd heard you'd come in today, but I thought you'd have gone home by now."Hanna smiled, but her eyes narrowed when she saw Cheryl. "Is there a problem?" She wants to see what she's been experiencing in The Construct."Cheryl recognized Hanna as the woman who'd claimed she'd been from another school. But she was part of the staff. Just what was going on?Hanna looked uneasy. "Um, a word with you, first?" She drew Mrs. Bainbridge off to one side. They whispered back. "Captain to the Bridge!" the voice came over the ship's speakers.Jim headed to the bridge with the twins on his heels."Report!" he ordered as he entered the room.The Ships AI was the one that spoke."Jim, the Gray's new class of ship is in motion. Current plotted coarse is P371-7." On screen, then."The new ship was fast. It was just as fast as the federation ships. It was, after all, using stolen Federation technology in its drives. All heads on the bridge watched as the ship approached the. I took a seat and looked over at the clock, and it was now around 4:30 am and I had a nice buzz going. Josh came in the room from the kitchen area, and sat down next to me on the couch handing me a beer. We both opened our drinks and sort of relaxed and started drinking. After a couple of minutes Josh turned to me and said:"I'm sorry I kind of evaded your question earlier about my girlfriend, but I am actually gay, and I didn't want to frighten you off, because you seem like a good guy and I.