Oh, Khalid. You are the other half of me. The two of us destined to meet and be together. I have no one to blame for my life alone, but me. And, now I...understand the worst thing I did that day is that I condemned you to that same fate. A lifetime alone. I am so sorry for everything. I am such a fool."At that moment, the last blocks of the wall around Helen's heart became dust and disappeared. The woman wept, but not for herself. She wept for the murdered man and she wept for Khalid. She wept. Can I ask you something?" she asked. "Yeah, sure," I said. "Are you still a virgin? I mean, I know we've talked about this before, but I figured maybe in the time I was gone you may have used some of the stuff I taught you." "Um, well. Yeah, I'm still a virgin." As I said this she looked at me and scooted closer. "Well, do you want me to teach you some things?" she asked. I just sat there with probably the coldest expression imaginable. Did my stepsister really just offer to teach me how to. We got to know each other for a bit. He was quite a player I guess. I appreciated his honesty. Three or four new hires would get that kind of exam each year. But after the exam, he'd want nothing to do with them."You're a little different. You're very cute. And there's just something about you I really enjoy. Plus you have a nice fat ass." He said. I nearly spit out my water as I laughed. There was a good chance he'd used that line before, but I didn't care. I was just enjoying myself. We. He fired. The center ship exploded taking several others, “Thank you, Lieutenant Curtis.”Curtis knew he was in the gray area of saying too much, but he did it anyway, “You’re welcome, father!”It seemed that they had been playing with these guys for an hour. Knobs were turned to “1” in seconds the fifteen or so ships were turned to junk. John only got to fire twice. The result of the second shot was a ramming of Lulu. Three hundred tons of ship hit at hundreds of miles per hour destroyed control.