The exhilaration of our sex on the beach must have carried over to my run and I put in over nine miles instead of my customary five or six. Pleasantly...spent, I took a long shower and headed to the pool bar in search of Rebecca and a cold beer.I found her seated at a table near the bar with a familiar companion. Across the table from her was our girlfriend from the cabana, her blue denim cutoffs high on her smooth, creamy coffee legs and her bare, firm chocolate nipples pushing through the. But I can’t stress this enough. The top priority is destroying the panels. Only after the panels have been destroyed will the leader decide whether entering the spaceship itself is a feasible option. Is that clear?”Everyone voiced their assent immediately.Eirini took over the meeting at that point, which was surprising to me since he wasn’t really a member of the Council. He took out a roll of paper and laid it across the table around which the Council sat.“This is all the information I could. That alone will take two of the three thousand dollars. Then we’ll need to buy as much of the seed as we can at the hardware store while we’re in town.”“Les, will we have enough money to make it until we can get the grants? What if we can’t get the grants now? It has been a year since I talked to Professor Forbes.”“Lucia, the first thing we need to do – is believe in what we are doing. We’ve made some fast plans and we’ve already started putting those plans to work. We will make it. Even if we. I would really like that.” And for a moment, I can’t bring myself to look away from her captivating sky blue eyes. We just stand there in the middle of the coffee shop, staring into each other’s eyes, remembering the last time we had done that. All it took was a single blink, and the spell was broken, and the moment gone. I exhaled the breath I had been holding and packed up my laptop. We shared one more hug before I left. 3 We sit at the bar in the restaurant sipping a few sodas after.