He noticed that his girlfriendhas been crying. She was sad.He wondered what was the matter, then he spotted her left hand. It wasfondling a locket tha... hung on a necklace. It was the first thing he hadever given to her.Thats when it hit him. She missed him.His absence as her boyfriend was tearing her up.This changed everything. He had to become human again. He had to bethere for her again. One hour after dryer time, and he can embrace herwith arms again.......If only the washing machine hadn't. When done, she lifted her glass. “All right, this sounds interesting.”Eli stood and waved to indicate everyone gathered. “Before we start,” he said, completely dropping his accent, “these people saved several lives at the Beans of a Feather today.”“That was your place?” Zita asked, leaning back on the couch and sipping her drink. “I heard about the accident, and some accidental hero, but no one mentioned it was your shop. Those jerks never tell me nu’thin’!”“This is gonna be tricky, ‘cause of. Her arms had slid around his hip and she had basically served as his blanket as they drifted off to sleep with thoughts of their evening burning brightly in both their minds.When morning comes, it finds them in basically the same position, although they have both shifted some. She had obviously pulled up the sheet sometime in the night to cover the lower part of her body and his legs. Her head had moved up more so that it rests more on his belly as her body covered him with her warmth. Stirring. “Doesn’t anyone notice that I am a woman with a beautiful body?” she asked herself loudly.That thought stayed with her for the rest of the day and into her sleep that night. Many of her great breakthroughs came to her overnight as she slept, and this one was no different. She dreamed that she was back in her lab walking naked through the virtual reality created there, but this time she had the holographic projectors turned on so that everyone at the locked-on coordinates could see her. Since.