A bead ofsweat trickled down my neck and dove between my heaving breasts. I wasbreathing hard, my chest rising and falling as I tried to expel the gro...ingstorm inside me. My face grew flushed.Something was coalescing out of all the heat and pressure down in my middle.I knew this when I felt it move. In reality it was just the slightestbump from the inside, but to me it felt like it made my whole body shake tothe ground. I sat on the edge of the bed and spread my legs wide, pantinglike a canine. Sara has made a few breakthroughs, too, Katy. Her new therapist seems to be getting through to her. At first, Sara was like a wounded animal, all curled up on herself, defending herself from... I don't know what she was defending herself from, maybe just herself. It doesn't matter. Then the therapist noticed she always sat with her arms crossed over her belly, another defensive posture. She didn't like herself very much, Katy, which is silly, but... anyway, she's smiling again. When I visited. “They wouldn’t want to hear that.”With a shake of his head, Dirk crushed his cigarette into the nearby ashtray. There was no need to elaborate who ‘they’ were, after all. Years of work in shadowy agencies had seen to that. “Well, that’s how it is. I figure the only thing keeping the aliens from conquering us is that we’d probably sleep with them if we had the chance, Kevs.”That earned a loud laugh from them both. “Gods, that theory again?” Kevin replied, the mirth never quite reaching his eyes.. "Um, ready to go?" he asked. Unfortunately, I was. I nodded, andhe offered me his arm as I walked towards him and the door. I ignoredit. Well, I mean, I was acting like I didn't see it, but I could almosthear it as I hurried outside.***16:56 7 Mar "Valerie?" he said after he started his truck. "Uh huh?" I didn't really want to look at him. He sighed. "Look, I'm really sorry about last time, back aroundNew Year's. I... I don't normally get like that." I swallowed. "It's,.