. Susan... the flowers... such a cute face... the way she would smile at me... smile with her eyes... such pretty eyes... so alive with her laughter..... her eyes... her eyes..."The car continued down the road, mile after mile. A small spark of Jim's consciousness was quietly keeping the cruise-controlled car aligned with the super straight lane, but otherwise his mind was deep into a different reality, immersed in the one brief love affair of his life."So nice to help her... to care for her.... “Wheeze goez.Wheeze goez witz shipz buz havz notz enoughz shipz.”TheOther was once more quite surprised.“You have space ships?”The worm spread his upper arms.“Meeze likez youz, buz I knowz youz notz too smarz. This is notz justz for makez Yehaa and pepinoz. Iz makez shipz. Wheeze usez a little shipz.”Narth said.“Before you evacuate with your own ships. Make sure you identify yourselves. Y’All ships are targets.”The Crucible was no more, it had merged and became one with Cruxor, the Answer.The. Dude was my best friend but he kept creeping out my girlfriends over how much he wanted my ass, not me, just my ass. I lost count of the number of girls he cost me, girls that didn’t want to compete with Jake for my body. Whether at work or school he would even trying to smack, or grab my ass. It was even worse when we would hang out in the evenings. At my house he wouldn’t even bother to hide the bulge in his jockey shorts.Finally one day as he begged me to dance, shake, and strip for him, he. .get caught in the rain did ya?” She laughed. “So...What can I get ya?” “Uh, Um...just a coke please.” Sarah replied. The bartender filled up a tall glass and placed it in front of her and went back about her business. Sarah scanned the room and her eyes fell back onto the green eyed man who is now staring into his beer intently. She studied him for a moment but found her view became blocked. She looked up to find a tall lanky blonde man leering at her, one of the unsavoury ones. “Well hello.