" Melanie, descend to ground level." Right."I watched the holographic projection as the Mary Ellen descended to the ground. It felt almost God-like to...know I was there and they had no idea where I was. Mixed in with that was a dose of fear that they would get a lucky shot off while our shields were down."Ground level." Melanie reported."Mike, Thomas, are you ready?" Yep." Ready when you are." Ok guys. Here we go. Al." Yes?" Drop the cloak." Done."Almost simultaneously the other two spoke.Thomas. "I don't know. I'll ask when I get off the phone. What's up with you?"I briefly explained my dilemma about the letter I was writing."The best thing to do is to stick as close to the truth as possible," she said. "Tell Tina that we met when you'd made a phone call, expecting to talk to someone else and ended up talking with me instead. We hit it off, but we don't date, since I'm gay." Huh." Well, it was true enough. I certainly hadn't expected whoever I talked to that night to actually give a. Birthday parties, Christmas parties, pool parties, I think we'd been to them all. Jan and Steffi, being the home birds looking after the children, had become particularly close. I also think that given the amount of flesh that was displayed at the pool parties that Mike had quite fancied Jan. I know I fancied Steffi - but younger children, that well-known contraceptive force, had very much seen to it that nothing ever happened between us. I'll explain at this point that, before our children. He has to admit that seeing her nipple is arousing, but still he never entertained the thought of pulling her into a bed and have sex with her. He has higher morals than to violate her like that.Cathy had been in her second marriage for about six years when she decides it wasn't going to work and she needed to get a divorce. Jim had advised her not to marry the SOB in the first place. The first time Jim meets him he senses bad vibes from him. It turns out her second husband is a real control.