..unless he does! Yeah, I'm going paranoid."Whatcha thinking about?" Ben's voice interrupted my thoughts and I jumped.He laughed and poked my side. "C...mon El. You've been so preoccupied in your thoughts lately. What's up?" I don't know how to start," I mumbled, my cheeks turning pink.He guided me to the couch. "Spill. I want to know everything." Um...," I mumbled."Tell me, El," he said, his voice low."I like you," I blurted out. There, I said it. Now he'd know and I had ruined our friendship.. You know how silly she is about losing him and I could see that she was beginning to get jealous of Gianna. I know it’s silly, to be jealous of a 25 year old love but that’s what she’s like. She worries so much that she will lose him to the past. I think she sees his past as a great big anchor dragging him away from her but I’m sure that’s not so. I told her later to stop worrying about it. ‘Lena,’ I said as we were getting ready for dinner that evening and she was musing about Gianna, ‘of. Then he had to remember who he now appeared to be. He still thought of himself as a forty-year-old man instead of the young woman he appeared to be. As far as Mandy was concerned, it was a purely innocent action so that she could see the television better.Paul looked down at Mandy. She was so close that he could smell her intoxicating female scent. He might look like a woman, but he was still male where it counted. In his silken panties, he could feel his cock stiffening. Perhaps it was a. ’ Javonnie feigned a look of injured pride before laughing heartily and heading down to the crews quarters. Rayne continued to stay by the railing, this was his favorite time of the evening, when all of the ships chores for the day were finished, and the sailors were gathered in small groups dicing or gambling, or carving as did Red. Red was famous among the crew for his mermaid carvings and was continuously pestering Rayne to let him carve a masthead for the Phantom of a bare-breasted mermaid.