During your years in stasis, the ship had accelerated to twenty percent the speed of light, and in roughly 20 more years, after completing a long dece...eration sequence, the ship should reach the Alpha Tau Minor system. In one year cycles, each member of the crew rotated from their stasis pod to being active to monitor the ship's functions and back to stasis. The work was mostly just baby-sitting autonomous systems which rarely needed any interaction. Roughly 6 months ago you began your active. "You do know it's hard to keep anything secret in a campaign," he tried one last time to convince me."Well do what you have to do, but you might want to remember, I might win. I admit it isn't likely, I do have a skeleton or two in the closet, but you just never know, when it comes to an election where mountain people vote," I informed him.When he broke the connection, I felt like I needed a shower more than ever. The camera revealed nothing, so I took off for home. I decided if I did run and. Pam suggested that we take a short break which was fine with me , and that I call Nancy. Who's Nancy Alex asked ? That's his girlfriend back home and he forgot to call her Pam said. It was partly my fault because I had his pants around his ankles most of his free time. I grabbed my phone and called Nancy she answered right away saying how she wished she was with me and I were kissing her lips and holding her tight. I rolled my eyes at all the sappy talk when Pam whispered something to the other. He looked it over carefully, sniffed it, tongued the bud to dampen it ... so it wouldn’t burn too fast ... adroitly packed it in the brass pipe. He handed it to me... “Ladies first,” he said. Patting his pockets to find his BIC, he flicked it and held the fire to the pipe I had stuck in my mouth. I inhaled drawing in outside air to cool the hit as I packed my lungs with the fragrant smoke.I passed the pipe.Chuck hit it ... nowhere as hard as I did ... but sufficient. He was watching me. I let.