I lost my father and what was left of my distant family and friends that day, as well as my freedom, when the whole planet capitulated within hours of...the invasion. We had never stood a chance. We were all victims, Gillian, my father, myself and Lilian, too. But the two of us have survived to this point and both of us were necessary for this present mission, even if the likelihood was that only one of us actually had a future, but we had much in the way of trials to survive before anyone could. At this point if I am honest I thought he was going to waste my time. But I was wrong...He asked me how long I could be ready in, and he could be there in 15 mins. I sent him my number and said to text when he was near. Oh my god I thought, hes serious. So I told him to come, I'll be ready. My heart was in my mouth, he was on his way!! I ran upstairs and quickly pulled on some fishnet suspenders, a lacy bra and knickers set and squeezed my feet into some huge heels. Then I ran down to the front. Everyone had heard and started to filterin. Scott was not popular so rounds of drinks went around as we toastedhis demise. We gathered bits and pieces of the gossip as people coughedup little stories they had gathered. Scott's bust was on the localnews. They were reporting a local "crime" figure had been arrested fordrug and human trafficking. Someone heard he had been at his partner'shouse when the bust went down. Someone else thought it had been atraffic stop. The TV had a live shot of. It felt good to get the words out, to sound like a man again, a man confidently talking to a woman, which of course, I was. Things however were not quite going to plan. I distinctly detected some indifference toward me, not pretend indifference as with most babes, this seemed to be genuine, as if she really wasn’t interested in me at all! ‘So why didn’t you go home?’ She asked, her beauty unable to mask the cold hard logic of her question. ‘I…I…I… was waiting for you.’ I stuttered like an.