‘No, I’m fine. You go on back in and leave me be,’ I said carefully, so I wouldn’t slur and make her worried. ‘You’re solid ice,’ she to...d me sternly and took the bottle from my numb fingers. ‘You’ve been drinking? You drank all this in the last half hour? Gretchen’s going to be furious. What’s gotten into you? Come inside. Now.’ ‘No,’ I said mulishly. ‘I’m just in the way inside. Go back to Ted and forget about me. I’m sorry I screwed everything up, and I just want to be alone.’ Lisa picked up. Causing me to jump, my hands shaking, I quickly remove my top, and place it in the bag. He seals the bag. Steps back, and takes another picture, pointed right at my breasts, ?the skirt now? he orders, as he pulls out another bag. Taking a deep breath, as I slide my thumbs into the waist band. Realising that all of a sudden, I am here standing nearly naked, in front of a stranger from a different country, and he is taking pictures, of my near naked body. Slowly, I slide my skirt, over my hips. Then an idea surfaced. She had given no attention to the number in her purse since their meeting at a party some time ago. Wondering if she could really go through with it, she dug out the cell phone number and called. The message was a recording that the cell phone recipient was not available. Continuing to pace, Laura looked in the phone book, then called information, but there was no listing. The cell phone was apparently her only link. She stared at the address. It was several blocks away,. The first group were married at 11:00 U-hours (Utopia time) with lunch at 12:00 U-hours Several weeks before, they had altered their clocks on the ship and the planet to match local time. There was even talk of altering their week as well as most of their rosters followed a six-day pattern as Sparky said the Utopian week was.The cooks kept wedding-lunch light but interesting as the bigger feast was to be later. Andre’ had made the wedding cakes for all the couples. Since so many couples were.