It isn’t a place she wants to be. No. She needs to go to Gunnar and lay everything out in the open. She needs to hear it from him. She needs to feel...normal again.She finds Gunnar’s quarters and tests the door. It is unlocked. She slowly opens the door. She can vaguely see him sleeping on his back in the dim light coming in from the door. She hadn’t realized just how late it was. Hers and Kate’s conversation had lasted for some time. She steps inside, closing and locking the door behind her and. But she was right; I wasn’t going anywhere. My whole vision of my future had just re-aligned itself to include Josie, which was a very disconcerting feeling. I pulled her into my arms and kissed her sweetly. “Are you sure you want this? I’m kind of a geek really. I had my own business doing software development from home, until it burned down that is. I’m really untidy, I always leave things to the last minute and I have a habit of getting myself into trouble.” “Well I’m kind of a geek too,”. She may have even sensed me pulling my pants down. To cancel out this worry, and to avoid her having any cause for suspicion, I moved my hands out to my pillow and readjusted my sleeping position so that I was on my side with my back to her. This action would appear, I believed, to be that of an innocent sleeper manouvering himself into a more comfortable position. Facing in the direction of Lisa and Emily’s part of the floor now, I listened out in the pitch dark for clear signs that either of. ”I should have kissed her then ... I wanted to, but with both parents standing a few feet away I just couldn’t. “Have fun,” I said to her.There might have been a trace of disappointment on her face as she said, “Bye.”As their car pulled away, my mother turned to me and said, “That was really nice of you to take care of Paula. She looks like she is a sweet, young girl.”I didn’t answer as I sadly thought of the phrase that described what just happened, “two ships passing in the night.”I was.