And I'm pretty sure that Mel does as well.Why won't they ask me out?" I pouted. Dad felt sorry for me and put ahand on my shoulder."I'm sure that one ...f them will eventually," he told me. "I've seen theway that they look at you. Maybe they're just waiting for the rightmoment." I nodded, feeling a little better."Now eat up," he instructed me. "The bus will be here soon and then Ican get on with some cleaning." I laughed. That was dad, a properhousehusband...never satisfied.A husband's job is. She bit her lip again, still nervous, and drew a dark spot of blood. Natalya noticed."You should not do this Jody . . ." Joey," corrected Joey.". . . you will make yourself bleed."She took a pristine white handkerchief from her handbag and reached over to wipe the blood from Joey's lip. Joey smiled in appreciation but said little else until they reached the car park.Natalya raised her eyebrows a little sceptically again when confronted with Joey's old Ford."My parents won't have me driving. “It must be wild to have an alien living in your mind.”“She does show me naughty things sometimes,” I admitted and grabbed my stockings. I pulled them on quickly. “We better hurry. We’re dawdling. We don’t want to get a demerit.”And when are we going out to look for the core?Lunch, I sighed. I can skip it. But not breakfast. I am starving. My stomach proved me honest by growling. Okay. It’ll be just a few hours. Then we’ll find it. I have the scanner in my skirt. I had taken it from her ship. After a long day of work I come home and my mind is already all over the place. What to expect when I come in.I open the door to the living room and all I can see is a chair in the middle of the room. On top of it is the blindfold, cuffs and a card.I open the card and it said, “Put on the blindfold and sit on the chair, put the cuffs on with you hands behind your back. I’ll be down in a minute! X X X”.I do what I was told and sit on the chair. I managed to put myself in the cuffs but It wasn’t.