"My darling daughter, you're now fully prepared," Andy said softly. "How do you feel?" Still scared, Mommy," the girl replied. "Will you ... would you...... kiss me? Please?"Andy lay on the bed with her body supported by her elbows. Very slowly she lowered her head until her lips just made contact with Susan's. Holding that position, she could feel the flow of the purest love and divine grace between them. At that instant Andy realized that Susan Collins was as holy and pure as Caitlin. Ted grinned and raised his eyebrows.Alice stared and her mouth dropped open in complete surprise. "OH, TED!!!" she gasped when she saw what it was. She was so taken aback she could hardly speak as they both stood there."Like it?" asked Ted, wriggling his toes in his new Tartan slippers as he rocked back and forth with his hands behind his back.Alice turned to her husband wide-eyed with wonder. "Oh, my God," she blurted out as she blushed from head to toe, "It's a paddle!!"Indeed it was. He'd. Mother usually brings take out home for supper. While we eat we have our family time. The day this story takes place a few things changed. Three days before one of the Teachers had been killed in a car wreck. Today was her funeral, school was dismissed at 11:30. We arrived home and went to our rooms to change. I put on a pair of running shorts which were quite loose and a T-shirt. Since it was to early for Jeopardy I picked up a book that we were reading in English, Catcher in the Rye by JD. If you had concerns, you expressed them either in a different form, or privately. The Ensign was totally out of line, and he had to know it.I logged that I was giving the order to micro-jump at such and such a date and time. Since the bridge was recording continuously, I also logged in the O.O.W (Officer Of the Watch) log that I was going to have Ensign Beaumont report to my cabin for intensive revue of Military Customs and Courtesies. This would happen in lieu of an official reprimand being.