Almost everyone knows how to swim. Our deepest ocean is over thirty eight thousand feet deep. Not that we have ever gone that deep."'Thirty eight what..." He looked at her with confusion."I forget. You have a metric system. Almost eleven thousand meters." And you live on this planet?" Yes. Don't look so shocked, Charlie. Just as red dirt and the endless miles of Areseric are familiar to you, Earth's blue waters are to me. Now come a bit further into the water and I'll teach you how to. . it was then that the magic began.She quietly stirred the martini with the toothpicked olive as I noticed her eyes begin to roam over my body and I thought, "hmmm, what are the chances that..." It was as the thought was forming in my mind that she started to suggestively lick the olive, her other hand slowly stroking the stem on the glass as those dark pearls began to fixate on my crotch. "Wow, I needed that", she said after her first drink, " Would you be too upset if I unloaded some stuff on. "You will be doing this experiment in pairs which I have pre-defined. And no, you can't swap." she announces. A wave of sighs and annoyed groans goes over the class. I didn't mind it though. I didn't have any real friends in this class. It saved the awkwardness of being the last person to find a partner.Mis Davies presses her clicker and the slide changes to a table showing everyone's partners. People scramble from their chairs to the front to get a better look. A few more groans come from the. Inside his brother’s car, he released a scream that was so feral and full of pain that Derrick’s heart crumbled. Derrick broke and had to comfort his brother somehow. With one look at Deidre and Jason, he wished, well it didn’t matter. Darius needed him. Climbing into the back of his car, Derrick sat with his twin. Darius was not talking, just looking lost. Dawn, who was six months pregnant at the time, joined her husband as he held on to his brother. She didn’t fear him or his volatile temper,.