"She's so stoic." Megan looked a little disappointed."Practice," Stacey said shortly. "Now, about that other matter?" They've been asking about your f...iend, Michael. A warrant to search his apartment for 'contraband' crossed my desk this morning." Is he okay?" I asked before I could think. I hadn't seen him for weeks. Stacey shot me an annoyed look and the weight of her displeasure squeezed a tiny burst of piss from me."Which apartment?" Stacey asked, which seemed weird since we had only the. You could go out with Kevin wearing baggy sweats and have curlers in your hair and he’d want to do you.”“You’ll call him?”Sally closed her eyes and shook her head before saying, “I’ll call him, but not until you get this okayed by Rob.”Coordination between Sally, Kevin, and myself took a couple of days. I lied to Sally when I told her that I had talked to Rob and that he understood why I had to do this. The reasons for that was I really needed to find out if I was the cause and I didn’t want to. I felt a straw being slipped into my mouth. “Slow sips, John,” came the voice of Xi, who had spoken first.“Why can’t I see?” I asked carefully.“The barbs on that creature are coated with a very nasty slow-acting toxin ... well, slow-acting to a human anyway, utterly deadly to an Orc,” Xi explained. It also induces extreme photosensitivity; hence I switched off your eyes for the duration. Another couple of days and I’ll restore your sight, John.”“Did we get away alright?”“Yes, barely, we think. We turn to each other and I say “well...maybe tomorrow?” hoping that she agrees. Stacey replies with “yeah, a good idea but you look so amazing it seems a waste.” I reply with “Well you look great too, so it’s an even bigger waste the both of us not showing everyone how it’s done, but you can make it up to me sometime.” Stacey gently puts her hand on my cheek and what seems like forever her lips eventually meet mine and I lay there still, she breaks off the kiss and leans in for more attempting.