.. she’d rather not. Slag like this is not our idea of a good time.”Gath did not have to think the proposition over for long. Flying out over the ...pen ocean and landing on the deck of a floating cargo vessel sounded fun. And he knew that with winter fast approaching in this hemisphere there were a slew of night deployments scheduled up in the AOR’s higher elevations to make sure automated equipment on dams, stream diversions systems, and spring injectors were operating properly. Being able to. They looked at each of the classes, moved to a corner and discussed it among themselves. Soon they had decided on their classes, mainly it was ones that they had excelled at back at Roswell High, like Alex with computers. Mostly they picked out subjects they were used to, ones they had back home but some they were more than happy to ditch.After writing it all down on the forms most of the other students started to pour into the hall and went for the forms. The Pride stood up and went to hand in. Sue looked a little nervous, but not scared-nervous. More excited. Anticipation? She sat next to me, took my hand, and looked into my eyes. She was radiant, as beautiful as she’d ever been, and her eyes glistened with fiery excitement. She smelled wonderful, too, clean and fresh, just a touch of perfume. I wondered what she was wearing under the robe. “Jason,” she said, “before Mike comes up, I wanted to ask you something,” she started, hesitantly, then took a breath and continued. “You know I. Blonde, bubbly, with a woman's figure and a girl's sense of fun, she was as comfortable in a prom dress as a baggy knitted sweater. I think I loved her once.We kept in touch until sometime in the mid 'nineties, when Lisa went off to South Africa for a summer and never came back. She met some lawyer, married and settled down in the wealthy northern suburbs of Bloemfontein: house, kids, the whole package. Friends Reunited came and went and we chatted briefly, same again with Facebook, but really.