Dimly, she heard her friends callingfor her to get up, which she managed to accomplish with the last ounceof her strength. Gia Coretti called time, a...d allowed her to rest a fewmoments and get some water. She finally called the class to order in asingle line, Emma to the far left.All 5 of the girls were promoted from grade 8 orange belt to grade 6green belt, effectively skipping a rank (grade 7 green belt). Theirnext promotion would be to the purple belt grades and then finally tobrown belt.. One day dealing with an alien life form and the next day observing a Quasar at close range and then on to isolate a virus for the Med Department, that was what she wanted to do, and so she decided to postpone her decision to quit and go into the third year.There everything changed, Aboard the Devi she became part of a group and from day one no one treated her bad or tried advances and then came Eric and out of nine individuals became a family of nine friends, her first real friends.She belonged. And I were diagonally opposite each other in the bathroom. The window high up on the wall was closed so the room was steamy and hot, rather like a sauna. A. didn’t say anything at all. Then without any explanation or warning he turned over in the bath and swung his gorgeous leg up over the side of the bath until he was lying on the side of the bath straddling the lip, his leg dangling down and exposing his exquisite ass to me, pale and steaming in the half-light of the late afternoon. He still. I was sitting on a bare hardwood floor looking at the sunset from the picture window. The white walls were bathed in golden light from dozens of candles I lit around the room, leaving shadows to dance in corners of the high ceiling."Tommy?" In here." I called. Abby came in the living room, dressed in a simple white sheath dress. She knew I loved the way she looks in white. This dress clung to her like a second skin, and I knew without being told that her high heels were the only other things.