Tashita smiled.“I decided to get comfortable,” she replied, quickly adding, “You should do the same.”My eyes locked on to hers. She was no lon...er a youthful seventeen year old girl, but a young woman, a young nubile woman, pressing herself up against me. Our lips met, softly at first, and then she parted hers and practically sucked my tongue right out of my open mouth, as she worked her hands up under my t-shirt to rake her finger tips across my back.“Happy New year,” I breathlessly. “Jack you are marketing but I was in logistics” I said “looking at a situation and deciding the way forward. Do you want to expand your little enterprise?” He nodded and said yes but he had already told me the limitations. “Ah yes, the male thing. Well I can help there. With me involved that takes care of that problem. What else is a problem? I asked. “Well the neighbours have mentioned there are lots of women coming to my house” he said “I told them the women are health workers and cleaners. She looking to one day hook up with a major law firm, me the state police. We shared a class together, Evidenciary Forensics.Never the shy one, one might almost have termed me aggressive, I asked her to have lunch with me on our second day of class. She'd eyed me suspiciously likely figuring I only wanted a chance to get into her pants. Well, she was right about me wanting to get into her pants, but it was not by any means the only thing I wanted. I wanted her to be mine forever. Yeah, I know,. "They walked out along the gantry towards the ship. It was barely sixty yards long and twenty yards in diameter, but it still dwarfed them as they got alongside the hull."Captain Marlon isn't too impressed by it — he think it's too small," said Thomas absently as his hand stroked the metal skin."It looks plenty big to me! I'll try not to dent it when we take her up," joked Ben, trying to control his sudden nerves.Phelps met them at the entry way and he saluted."Welcome aboard prototype one,.