”“Mom, what you think is funny, ISN’T!”She looked at me with a knowing smile.“K is so special to me – I just don’t know what to do about...her? Let’s run another scenario. Something, I don’t even want to think about, happens to Claire. So, ten years from now, I am twenty-four, Kalista’s nineteen. We can dance together now in competitions; we could get married, have children — I don’t know.”“The hardest part of this scenario is that for it to happen, something horrible would have to happen to. As they tucked into a Kansas chili dog with all the trimmings, Bobby remarked, “You know we have only two days left and one of those will be taken up by making sure we reach Dulles airport in time!” Angie looked forlornly at him and said, “I just don’t want this adventure to end!”Bobby responded, “Neither do I, but we can always plan for a bigger longer break here in a couple of years say for our fifth anniversary!” Angie looked seriously at Bobby for a moment and tried to read his thoughts,. How the sound of his voice made me feel like crying. At the beep, I wailed, ‘Sasha, it’s me, I’m being held prisoner on this damn plane! We’re not going to have any time. Please, please be there! I’m so sorry. Love you.’ After an eternity, we landed. The flight attendant read a list of connections over the intercom. My flight to Tokyo was departing right on time. Even before the plane came to a full and complete stop, I leapt up, grabbed my bags and stood by the door. The flight attendant gave. "Good, I'm glad you agree," Alice replied, grinning like the Cheshire cat."Let's go for a swim and then have breakfast, we still have a mountain to subdue today." Yeah sure, sounds fine to me."Swimming, like usual, was a refreshing event and Alice even had some fun with John in the water. His horniness seemed to know no limits and she deemed it her job to make sure he was well satiated before the climb. Luckily her soreness of the night before had disappeared and John, being his chivalrous.