He was my best friend and I was hurting inside. Petra seemed to understand, except she didn't, not really and I knew that. She was being my friend tho...gh and that's what I wanted right then, and so that's why I found myself sitting with Petra, Sonja, and Tori a minute later, explaining to them why Roger had gotten mad. Trying to make them understand that he wasn't my boyfriend and I wasn't gay, and all of this was just a big mistake.They listened to me, giving me sympathetic smiles and nodding. " Well," I said in barely a whisper, "It's um, it's kind of uh my uh.." It's his testicles, Helen," said Mom in exasperation, "He came downstairs yesterday evening and said he had a problem with them. They were always aching he said."There you go. Now I know where the phrase "So mortified you want to crawl and hide up your own asshole" comes from. Way to go Mom. The Doctor looked at me as I turned the brightest shade of puce ever.I gave a small nod. "Uh, yeah. My er testicles sort of ache all. The five original twins and Simeone were now extremely comfortable in each other's company and Ben allowed some time for simple conversations about family and day to day events before getting down to business.Sarah knew that Ben intended to share what they had learned in the past few weeks with the others and she hurried to help him clear away the food and empty plates so they could begin. Once that was done, Ben indicated that they should all find a comfortable chair and pull it over in front. If you're not going to help Earth, my family will. We'll retrofit that ship for combat and fight them with their own weapons if we have to. I believe this meeting is over. I wish you all a good day."He marched out of the meeting room before a single member of the council could open their mouth. It was only a hundred meter or so walk to the airlock that led to the light cruiser they had captured, so he was in front of the door fairly quickly. Unfortunately, so was a massive Xhfing guard."The.