She started to pull away, but I wove my fingers into her hair and held her to me.When we pulled away from the kiss, she looked at me with this massive...smile on her face. She got up, walked to the door, and turned off the light. I sat on the bed in complete darkness, waiting for her to sit back down next to me, but she didn't. Suddenly I heard the distinctive sound of her unzipping her jeans, and the light crumpling noise of fabric hitting the wooden floor. I caught my breath as I felt her hands. That explained why I felt so odd when I first saw it. It hadn’t collapsed where the ground was higher than the water’s surface. To be sure, the sea had moved into the few places where the land was below the sea level. We were indeed fortunate that there was very little of that.“Have the drones make a pass all along the border.” ‘For it is surely a border, if I ever saw one,’The drones showed where the power and phone lines were down on the ground, as if cut in mid-span, then there was the rail. “I need to ask you something.”“What’s up,” the five-eleven, deep-brown guy from Indianapolis braced himself.“Will you be my best man?”“You serious?”“As a heart attack, mane!”“You don’t wanna ask one of your frats? Or, your actual brother?”“He’s too young. Everybody knows we’re tight. Whitney’s good with it!”“Then, yeah! Yeah I can do that!”“Thanks! What you about to do?”“Chapter meeting. Then, do some work in the lab. I’ll be back around 11:00 or so.”“Bet. Keep that ass tight for me!”“You got. As the weeks went by I got to know Sally a bit better, she was 22, doing temp work on reception part time while she studied. On the last Friday of each month we had after work drinks and snacks on a big open floor office space in our building. I went down to get a beer and chat with a few mates when I noticed Sally standing there looking sexy as always. She was wearing a while blouse with just enough buttons undone to show a good amount of her amazing cleavage and a skirt which came just above.