Penny's as they planned. Mariasmiled as she walked up towards Brett. They exchanged a hug and kisses onthe cheek and headed inside as their pocketbook... dangled from theirshoulders.Brett and Maria walked into the mall and began walking through the commonarea. They peered into shops, but did not enter any until Maria pulledBrett into a shoe store. Maria looked over the pair ofmesh faux snakeskin three inch heeled pumps and asked Brett's advice.Brett picked them up and looked them over and said,. I strolled the supermarket to purchase some groceries. Anyway, once I made the payment I walked home. To my surprise, Anjali parked right in front of me in her sports car. Rolled down her window.“Hi, Hasan how are you, where you off to?”This was the first time Anjali did not greet me with ‘salaam’. I knew that the formalities were now out of the window.“I’m fine, thank you. I just went to pick up some bits and bobs. I’ll be heading back home tomorrow to meet the family. How’s Shivani?”“She’s. It was too damn funny. ‘Chocolate Kisses, Bree. We’re out of chocolate kisses.’ I pushed her little captive red M&M out in front of me. She picked up the box, clutching it to her chest, blushing. ‘I’m so sorry, Zach,’ she whispered, bringing her hand to her mouth. ‘Three days we’ve been out. It was only meant to be a little reminder,’ I told her. I wanted to hold her, calm her, but I was afraid. The office. Sexual harassment. The age difference, only about 10 years, but it seemed like 20.. " She said.The shuttle we were in shook as it hit some debris."The ship was lost, most of the fleet is destroyed, the aliens are still coming through the wormhole, we are hiding among the debris, unfortunately the aliens are homing in on the human life signs, fortunately there is enough debris in space that we have been able to avoid them so far." she said.The lights in the shuttle dimmed."We are locked onto a reactor from one of the human ships, the distortion from the reactor should hide us.".