. I might become distracted." He said waggling his eyebrows at For'mya and Anja.Helen slapped him in his shoulder. "Stop that and listen to me." She s...apped.Anja leaned up against For'mya and smiled at the look on Martin's face. "Pervert." She said lovingly."Only for my ladies." Martin spoke with a grin. He turned and saw Helen glaring at him and he held up his hands in surrender as his mood began to lighten even more. "Ok! Ok! Hit me with it." The avatar of this ship pointed me to the correct. Teenaged romances typically don't last very long. Chances are they won't be around when it eventually happens, although the knowledge you may not live long may actually further that by making them pull away from you unintentionally. Needless to say, this is pretty delicate ground to navigate. So no, I haven't told them yet. I wanted to, but I didn't think they'd handle it very well, so we thought we'd wait until after we told you. I've just been waiting for the right time to tell you." But how. It's notevery day I get one up on you."He didn't respond and just rolled his eyes as he looked out towards thewall with the mural they had just come from. Leaning against it was thatstrange woman from before[Doug Kope1] smoking a cigarette and staring athim. Again he felt uneasy and quickly looked away once their eyes met.After a few seconds, he looked back and saw she was still leaned upagainst the wall but beckoning him towards her with a finger.Talon gave her a questioning look, setting the. .. I don't have time to argue, but Iknow I'm going to get in trouble when I get back tonight." I looked atthe clock and I'd already be cutting it close if I had to drive by theschool before heading to the freeway."We're either going to school together, or we're getting in troubletogether. It's YOUR choice, Ally."I turned to look at her and saw that she was determined in her decisionto stay with me. I'd never known Jen to be so stubborn, but I suppose Inever got into this kind of fight with.