Girl: Hahaha! They all want to be with you.Me: I wonder why.Lisa: Because you’re a boy, everyone feels safer in the woods with you around.Me: Why? I...can’t fight a bear or a wolf.Chloe: Hahaha! There are no wild animals around!I see Anna was standing near the teacher.Teacher: Ok, settle down! Here are the rules! You’re going to be in teams of two, I’ll make those teams.Rose: What? But I wanted.Teacher: These are the teams. Rose with Chloe, Aafi with Lisa and you two girls are with Anna.Rose: But. She had to have madeextensive estimates about mission success, with every little detail takeninto account. The mission apparently now being the survival of the humanspecies. On a barren rock, in bumfuck nowhere space.Fuck it, I thought. If humanity verged, at the brink of destruction, onthis asshole of an mech-engineer getting his dick wet, it might as welldie. I wouldn't be a cog, a toy, to be violated for his 'relief'. If hehad asked nicely, then perhaps. He was kind of handsome, in purely. Or Fay. I think we needed timeto let those topics marinate on their own. He said he needed to go homebetween school and the game. He had already got himself a ride home sincewe weren't on speaking terms all morning. Hearing that didn't make mefeel better. I let him know I was planning staying at school allafternoon and evening.Things were better between us than this morning. Although I felt like ourearlier fight did linger in the air a little. I don't remember him beingso protective of me when. ‘Tell me,’ she invited huskily. ‘It was nothing,’ he insisted awkwardly. ‘It was nothing that you always wondered about?’ she mocked him lightly. She wasn’t going to let him off the hook, she would keep on at him until he said something. ‘Let’s take a shower together!’ he blurted out the first thing that came into his head. ‘Okay!’ she was on her feet and tugging him to his, before he could even come to terms with what he’d said. God she was just so damned sexy! He realised then that he would.