On this planet we build the elite in those cases. You remember how they tried to reach the point of origin on “fight club”? We are closer to this ...oint than you can ever get by now. I don’t know what the future might bring but you can’t tell me honestly that you thought about cells or biochemistry while you just fucked me.” She swallowed and my eyes hung on her lips. “Have you ever thought why men and some apes are the only creatures that have sex for joy? I don’t want to talk about tantric. Once, after the bombs stopped falling, after we dug out and saw the city, I ran off on my own and found an area of the city that looked like this. Still decent. I fell asleep, and when I woke up, I thought maybe it had all just been a dream. I squint at the Sun breaking through the broken frame of the David Estates. It was that charred corpse of a building that pinched me that morning. Woke me up. Your family’s gone. The world’s gone. You and a hundred or so kids survive. We had been on a. “My dad, Timmy’s dad, and two attorneys worked out the deal. Timmy’s going to college and really can’t afford to pay child support, so his parents will pay until he can. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to go to college and would have to work full-time.”I saw a doctor coming down the hall and Tasha and her mom both jumped up and hurried to meet him. Tasha’s squeal told me everything I needed to know.“Healthy baby,” I said.“Obviously!” Clarissa agreed.Tasha came back to us while her mom went to. I was still stinging from the major’s comment about getting a little girl’s dress and a lollipop. ‘Hot date?’ I about jumped out of my skin at my roomie’s voice. I hadn’t heard her come in. She wasn’t supposed to be back for an hour, long after I’d left. ‘No, just gonna take my truck out. There’s s’posed to be some good trails up north.’ I had intended to do just that, before the major had seen fit to interfere with my plans. ‘Why are you standing there then?’ she asked, flopping on her bed to.