I was shocked to see that I now stood on the deck of her vessel. It was the first time that I had ever jumped to find myself in the presence of divini...y."And there is the twang of your tongue," I said, "while you speak my dialect, it is strange to you. Though I must add that it sounds of music when you speak." Come, would you like to see the inside of my craft," she asked?Indeed I was excited at the prospect to see the vessel that a god traveled in. Shaking my head in agreement she held her arm. She looked over. It was Stacy.With her hand still on her shoulder, Stacy leans in and whispers in her friend’s ear. “Hey Emily! Are you still giving your stepbrother those lessons of yours?”Emily looked back in her locker and started to pull out her books for her next period. She couldn’t help but smile when she heard the question, but she responded in as a business like voice as possible, “Yeah, they’re still going on.”“How are they going?”Turning to face Stacy, she gave her friend a smug. “Team Girlfriend isn’t Maxine Monday Thursday, Alexa Tuesday Friday, and Samantha Wednesday Saturday.”“Sunday’s free? Calling dibs,” Sam announced. I smiled at her.“Look,” I grabbed Max’s face and both of us were smiling so I squeezed a bit and deformed her lips. I brightened. Her eyes sparkled. My fingers pushed up the corners of her lips into a bigger grin. I looked over and smiled for Sam, not for Alex. I stopped my fingers from actually hooking into Max’s cheeks - I didn’t know the rules of. She pulled off her sunglasses. ‘You here alone?’‘No, I –’ Pete said. ‘I’m with someone.’‘I've missed you.’ Zoo held eye contact long enough to make it uncomfortable then turned, twisting on the tip of a ski boot, and headed for the restaurant door. She looked back. ‘Am I allowed to see you?’‘Sure,’ he said. ‘Sometime.’Zoo hesitated again, then went inside. Pete stayed out on the terrace until the sweat subsided from his forehead. Pete hadn’t thought about Zoo for ages. They’d met years ago at.