Alisha decided it was for the best to let the other girl take the lead – temporally.“You live nice place said the Julie.” Alisha was dumb until ...hey safely got into her place. As they seated themselves in the leather sofa. Julie pulled in her legs and lay down in a comfortable position on the sofa, as she kept looking at the beautiful raven haired new found friend in front of her. She smiled and finished her bottle of beer that was offered, while Alisha drank up hers too. Julie took her bottle. No one was intractable like Olga Marlene Holloman Baker.She looked at her rear. A white-limbed handprint was clearly visible on her right cheek. Charlee was left-handed, and it always caught Olga by surprise when Charlee lost her temper and unleashed. One night in the suite, she’d unfortunately witnessed what Charlee did to a sub. The woman’s face bore the same handprint, twice as lividly red, on both cheeks. Charlee had made the woman--her name was Madeleine, Olga remembered--put a raw egg in. “Obviously, there’s no real way to tell. Logically, it would be ridiculous for a small ship like that to threaten Earth, but remember, all it would have to do would be to stand back a few hundred miles, and with its energy weapons, bombard us at will. How long would it take Earth to plan and execute a mission to try to hit the thing with a missile? Even then, the alien scout, if that’s what it is, would see our missile coming and could easily move to a much higher orbit. The missile would run. Timmy suddenly called out, “Daddy, look at me!” He kicked his legs rapidly, splashing the water.“Use your arms too and see if you can go all the way across,” I said, watching him flail away. My God, how I loved that kid.“Well?” Marika asked impatiently. Her top was loosely hanging from her shoulders, not quite covering her milky breasts.“I’m pretty sure I’ll take the offer,” I replied. “But there are some things we need to discuss first.”“Like what?”“Like your history with my boss Lenny, for.