"Carlos, are you busy?", the familiar voice of one of my co-workers said."I gotta go. I'll see you tonight at school," I said to Rebecca."OK. See you ...onight," she replied and hung up."Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you were on the phone." He sniffed the air. "What's that smell? It smells like almonds." Almonds?," I replied, pretending to sniff the air.Of course, the odor he was detecting was my come. The air in my cubicle was thick with the heady aroma of semen."Almonds?", I repeated. "I don't. Today he was going to pick me at noon. I didn't sleep the entire night nervous if i would go through with meeting him. Part of me was scared that he might be a killer while another part of me was fearful he might just hurt me. He seemed like a nice older man and said he had always been attracted to men. I didn't want to be with a man only because they couldn't get pussy. I emailed Mac at first and told him many many times I was very shy but the more we emailed the more i opened up to him about. " The whole time, Shelia nodded."The AI from the Artemis Moon Base just confirmed that forty-five metric tons of Confed-E02 high explosives at least thirty meters into the main entrance should destroy the ship." Shelia looked back at the group. "The nearest factory replicator is four hours away. It would take it ten hours to create that amount."Davy sat back down and pulled out a chair for Jacob. Davy then turned to Shelia. "How stable is the explosive?" A moment, let me ask the AI," Shelia. Should I go back to my dad? Would he love me, would I love him? The way he had treated me, could I? I walked home, rather than getting a taxi. It would be an extra 20 minutes, but with the traffic, there wouldn’t be much of a difference. As I was walking, my mind wandered back to the man that was Tom. What were my feelings towards him? The gap that was missing within me couldn’t have been yearning for Tom. I had just lost a baby, never been loved. The attention was getting to me. I didn’t love.