" I whispered. Our phones began bussing. My dad was out front and his grandma was out back. Reluctantly I picked up the phone. "Yes. I'm on my way out..." He just looked at me. "Sweetheart, I have to go." I whispered. He kissed me hard one last time and let me go. He stood there for another ten minutes. He texted me when he left. All night he was all I could think about. I wanted him. I needed to feel him inside of me. He worked and I had to babysit. It was eleven by time we could talk and I had. Never minds working a little later and is always willing to lend a hand or five… Well he has two arms with normal hands. Which makes his job easy since he never needs to ask for a second pair of hands to help him. I feel bad for him on days like this, it’s hard to find a date when you are a tentacle monster. Even given some of the other odd anthromorphs running around town. Like I said, Bob is a good guy, sure he might have steak knives for teeth and large eyes. But really you couldn’t ask for. MARK!"Rand felt heavier, then heavier still, as Skryben piled on the power. Her internal gravity tripled, going from 0.65 to two standard gravities in less than thirty seconds. The Vortigen craft's maximum acceleration was almost exactly the same as Skryben's, but the distance between the two vessels was slowly decreasing.'... enemy craft will be within combat range in twenty four minutes and fifteen seconds from... Mark!... next jump will be twenty seven minutes and forty five seconds from.... Today at work when I asked her to spend the night I thought she was going to jump out of her skin she was so excited. I gave her the key to my apartment and told her I would be waiting for her out on the balcony in the hot tub. I got in the water and lit up a cigarette and smoked while sipping my scotch letting all the worries of a long day slip from me as the hot water relaxed me. As I had been sitting there in the hot tub I must have dozed off a little cause I woke to Alexis kissing me from.