" John, I'm 18 ... you're 26 ... eight years." Oh yeah." John scratched his head. You would have been ten when I graduated from school?" Thereabouts,"...Would have been a big deal back then ... not so much now." Big deal?" it was her turn to scratch her head. "Oh, ten and eighteen." Folks would have frowned on that."Back to the present:A new green standard CJ5 putted into the yard and around the drive. It was followed by a roar and a leap as a a camouflage painted jeep powered up the rise and. We all knew what was going to happen.The black man was also dressed in nanites - but they had been coded to look like a rather nice three piece suit. When his collar came off the clothes seemed to freeze. Jagged lines of black formed across the white and gold hues of the suit, as if it was on a screen whose channel had changed unexpectedly. Then the suit began to fall away in pieces, revealing sculpted muscle and ebony dark skin, glistening with sweat. It was as if he had been struggling for. " he said. "Old enough to be your father, probably."She wasn't fazed. "I already have a father. I don't need another one. But I'm not dating anybody right now." She glanced at Bob, who was talking to June, and remembered thinking of him as an "older man" for as long as she could remember. "I like older men." she said softly. "At least I think I do. You're the first one I've ever asked out." Aren't I the one who's supposed to be asking you out?" he grinned."I accept!" she said promptly. "I like. .. fancied you for a while now. I would totally have hit on you while you worked with me and fuck HR guidelines, if you had shown any interest in me.“Hell, if you had taken advantage of me while I was passed out, I would have just been happy to wake up with you! And I would ... I know that this is unethical, but I would never have disciplined you for anything ... though if I had, you could have taken it out on me later. Sorry, didn’t mean to bare my soul to you, but ... hey ... I’m tired of.