”I looked at Avanna and Charles, sitting at the table behind us, and huffed.“More or less,” he amended. “Which is still weird.”I couldn’t ...gree more; I didn’t think I’d ever get used to people following me wherever I went, but we hadn’t been this close to alone in ... ever, really. “I can’t wait to get home.”“That eager for the snow and the cold, then?” he teased.I chuckled. “Well, maybe not that. But I miss our bed and our friends and having a routine. I just want things to be ... normal, for. "Not so big a deal, baby," Hale said cheerfully. "It's been the funniest thing about this whole thing. Hestia wasn't going to work." What?" Corey blurted, covering his mouth in shock."Totally," Steve said. "It was a bust. We couldn't, like, get the transfer RNA sequences right, the virus totally died after replicating only once." You mean all of this was for nothing?" Joe Hargreaves said."No," Steve said. "I mean, like, our research is like way, way more advanced than anybody else's. But it. And then somehow I ended up telling him about the shitty day I had been having. My car dying, my boss and I having an argument and my possibly being fired. Even finding who I thought was my boyfriend feeling up the mall slut and getting my stockings ruined.David was a traveling troubleshooter for the security company he worked at, going from town to town checking security systems at banks and stores to look for weaknesses. He said it was interesting work and paid well, but he did not even have. Nick as I devote a LOT of time to the community and help out with many local charities. I tried to never step out of line. That is until my whole world crumbled in a matter of months. My wife Grace and I had been trying to conceive to no avail. We were having sex like we had back in high school. I used to love waiting for her outside of her private school. The gorgeous teenage girls frolicking by as I wait. Some days it was so much that before we went home we'd scurry off into the woods nearby..