I closed the panel and returned to the maintenance room. I turned the controller on and left and let the drones move around me. I watched another Dark...while examining the controller for the first. I grinned when I understood the idiot proof control system and entered a command. The frozen drones by the fresher shifted and moved before they turned and headed away.Finally the other Dark turned and then came out and headed to the fresher. I slipped into the maintenance room and then the back. She knew the time was near, but that was of no consolation when it happened. The two of them were amazing together. Everything they touched turned to gold, so to speak. They had gorgeous children, perfect grandchildren, fabulous careers, a beautiful home; the perfect life. They loved to laugh and their devious little minds worked in unison to come up with some very interesting twists and turns. They had a love for each other that was like no other. Everyone that came in contact with them knew. Now it was Laura’s turn to pipe up. She said, ‘Are you k**ding, at this point you’ll f**k up the friendship more if you don’t show us!’ That was all I needed to hear. I unzipped my pants and let my meat do the talking. Of course it’s greeted with peals of laughter, gasps and, ‘Oh my god, where the f**k did that come from?!’ So I’m standing in front of them and they’re sitting on their couch. Laura takes her finger, laughs and presses down on my glans (as though turning of a light switch) to. ”Dean just nodded like he had expected that answer and turned to Dave.“Let’s see if we can find the radio. Our little units won’t reach back to the yacht.”Twelve days. Twelve god -damned days. Jake, once he was sure that we were not going to disappear into the Italian justice system, left a raft of high-priced lawyers to watch over us and flew back to the US with Liz, Dave and Steph. That was after day four.Dave wanted to stay, but we convinced him that his duty was to Jake and he couldn’t.