After she was in the water but just a minute, a waiter from the local beachside bar came. "You're Americans, aren't you?" Yes," I responded."Thought s.... What can I get you to drink, mon?" I ordered a Margarita for myself and a Pina Colada for Hayley. Maybe a little alcohol would help her, but, hey, she was already past the major obstacle.Hayley finally returned, and I understood how the waiter knew we were Americans. It was a topless beach, and Hayley was probably the only woman on it without. “That would account for the heavy flow of hot air we got when Lisa opened the wormhole.”“Wonder what happened?” Tanya mused. “I mean, between now and the future? There was a lot less depth to the atmosphere in the twenty-first century, you know.”“Dunno,” Tabatha replied, looking around at her first view of prehistoric Earth. “Close encounter with something large, I imagine… maybe something that blew off the entire atmosphere. Remember those wooly mammoths they found at the North Pole with. Held each other and then made love again, until all was still and it was just the two of us, the demons flown away.It was late and we were tired and now physically exhausted, so talking could wait until the morning, as we drifted off to sleep, cradling each other and comforted.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~As the wintery morning sun drifted into our bedroom, I felt a hand stroking my hair and I woke to the vision of my smiling wife looking down at me. A life that. I'm not.Today is the day that I will find out if I have to admit to my husband that I have been unfaithful. Soon, I will push out my firstborn, and it's up in the air as to if my baby will look like my husband, or if it will be black, and I will have to tell him what happened all of those months ago.My husband works a stressful job, one that often involves traveling. That Night, as it will forever be ingrained in my memory, he had been away for a week on business. I had given him our usual.