" Mohammed had anticipated a trial, but not this quickly. Confederacy justice was obviously faster than on either Earth or Escardis. He settled in his...seat and watched proceedings. The evidence was the video footage provided by the AI monitoring Ahmad's pod. The first clip showed his pod getting the general warning about under age wives. The AI had trimmed the other announcements, just leaving the relevant part. The second clip was of Ahmad negligently waving a hand to acknowledge that he had. He had two beers open for both of us and a large glass of wine poured out for my wife. I put some of my music on; I have some great stuff downloaded from the web going back to the mid 60's so it was right up Tony's street too. The wife joined us, sitting in the chair opposite Tony and me. She was dressed basically the same on the outside as she had been earlier that night, green wraparound skirt with a red and white blouse. Her nipples were still poking out of the fabric and looked. My roommate had left for a long weekend at home so I asked Danny if he wanted to come to my room to continue studying. Before long Danny closed the books and said he had something to ask me. He told me that he really liked me and enjoyed spending time together. I assured him that I felt the same way. Then he told me that he was going to kiss me. No one had ever told me that before, just did it. His kiss was light, his lips barely touching mine, and then he pulled back and smiled. He smelled. Despite everything, her words hurt him. Of course he doesn’t want Ryan to take her virginity. He wants it himself, and therein lies the reason he knows he has to push her away. He has shown her many things, taught her more about herself than she could have ever learned from someone else, but it has to end here. She’s asking an honest question - one that deserves an answer. But she already knows the answer. She is challenging him. Will he say yes and finally give in to what they both want, or.