" Thank you, darling. But let me have a chat with these lads first, thenyou can have your say."Can't say I liked the way he called me darling, but I k...pt my mouth shutas he went through some more procedural technicalities with the two copswhile the woman down the corridor kept at it with her weary fuck yous."Now then, love. Best we have your details then. Name?" Phillip Jacob Wesley."He looked up from his keyboard and pursed his lips through his beard."Hear that?" He jerked his thumb towards. " Garth punched the unlock button, that released the bus from the Fletcher and then increased the lateral thrusters. The Yellow Beast moved away from the ship."Garth, find the nearest Lasso in the NAV computer. That's where Fletcher'll be heading," Red prompted."That's gonna take time, Red. These things don't have the same navs as your ship."Alex stood up in his seat. "Use my pocket pal, Garth. It's got a proxy program of Rosie. She'll be able to find it."Garth saw Alex's little computer was. I had worked out that if I pushed it to my side, it disappeared. It was still there when I told it to reappear.I didn’t really push the pace, as I was enjoying my day off. Well, I didn’t think I had. I expected it to take me about three hours give or take, to cover the almost 14km trip, as there were a lot of hills to navigate.I was surprised it was still only mid-morning, and it had taken just under two hours. I was starting to realise that the bling was affecting me, as I could not come to. I looked over at her and she was blushing. After class I approached her and said, "Hi. I just thought I would say the instructor was absolutely right, your post was brilliant. By the way, I'm Tom." She looked me in the eye and said, "The other students who had commented on her post were either intimidated or thought she was promiscuous." I took the leap, "Would you like to have coffee with me?" We went to the cafeteria, got coffee and sat at a table and talked and talked. Joan was brilliant..