Mel and Pete had been married for six months. I’d been over to see them about three times in their new home. Each time Nessie had begged a lift. I w...s happy to oblige. Any time I spent in her company was time I enjoyed. She always seemed to dress up for the occasion, putting on a dress or skirt rather than her habitual jeans. She could have worn a Donkey Jacket and dungarees and I would have still enjoyed her company, but I didn’t think it was for me, I thought it was to show her elder sister. That is a cold water world in the old Xunx Expanse.”“Oh a water world, I doubt there is anything more alien to me than water or liquids. I can watch a running water faucet for hours it never stops to amaze me! I bet you actually go swimming and have contact with the water, right?”“Yes I do. Swimming and diving is second nature to me, but it is not as important anymore as it was to most of my kind.”A deep blue skinned, small in stature and bald headed officer stepped behind the lectern asked us. This gave me a lot of courage and we started sharing our fantasies and views about sex from that day. One day we mutually had sexting session which made both of us very horny from then on.We started to develop feelings and sexual urges immensely for each other! Later we both realise that what we were doing was wrong and so we decided never to talk about all that again. Days passed and we had completely stopped speaking about sex.One day, Su called me up and said, Janu (that’s what she calls me. Every minute out here, we learn new things about the way that nature behaves. When I’m given the opportunity to see some new sight, I take the time to watch it. It doesn’t matter if it’s an insect that I’ve never seen before eating a leaf or the mating ritual of a pair of birds.”Thoughtful, Howard dropped back to think about what he had learned. The courses on biology at the school had not prepared him for the lessons that he was learning out here. Although he had not felt that he had learned.