I just wish I could write back," Flint responded. "I know, but I don't want to risk Mom seeing them," Jen said as her hand sought his. Their fingers i...terlaced and he gave her hand a squeeze, her heart began to beat faster. Once they reached their driveway she bailed out and ran into the house, she needed release. Once safely in her room with the door closed and locked she could attend to her needs. It was at a sleepover at a friends house that she learned this trick and now she used it almost. “Dude, you are so in,” Bob told him. “You might pitch our opener. That was sweet to watch you shut down some of those guys. I thought Vincent was going to fucking cry and Jones – that guy didn’t know whether to shit or go blind. You had him so fucked up after that changeup that you could have tossed it to him underhand and he would have missed it.”“Yeah, they told me I was the one they picked to send the message to a few of them,” Phil revealed with a frown.“Hey, someone had to be the sharp end. "Well, it'll do for now, I guess."She took the gun and the ammo clip out of her sister's hands, shoved the clip into the handle of the little gun and pulled back on the slide. When she let go, a round slid into the chamber with a loud snick!"You first?" Béla asked and grinned evilly. She shoved the gun right up against her sister's soft stomach and grinned, "Where do you want it?"Without waiting for an answer, she pulled the trigger. A muffled thump sounded as the gun bucked in her hand. Beth. His and Ship's universe.The gateway opened - finally something to see besides endless nothingness! - and Ship transited back to reality. Going in less than a femtosecond from a relative eighty times the speed of light to six light-minutes per hour. Pilot watched, awed as always, as the reality of stars reappeared around him and the crushing aloneness disappeared as though it had never been."Are you there, Ship?" Pilot thought, looking up at the living bulkhead above him with more than a bit of.