’ ‘You wouldn’t dare,’ I good naturedly teased, ‘Besides, that’s not fair.’ ‘No, it isn’t,’ she smiled, making her way to sit besi...e me on the piano bench, ‘But there aren’t any rules when it comes to love and war,’ and with that said, she leaned over and softly kissed my lips. Because of the fact that she did that in front of my mother and sister, of course my face turned beet red in embarrassment. Megan drove the point home even further when she pointed at me and giggled, ‘Ooo, look at him. I chuckled inwardly because I had slept with Melanie here on several occasions and I was sleeping with Jennifer, though with Jennifer, sleeping wasn’t a euphemism for sex. Pete was the epitome of conservatism, at least socially, and that, ultimately, was what bugged Melanie. In the end, they’d reached some kind of accommodation, and that gave me hope with Kara.I pushed those thoughts out of my head as I changed into shorts and a t-shirt and Jennifer changed into her nightgown. We curled up in. He carried on,unaware of the long eyelashes his eyelids had sprouted.On he studied through the reports, occasionally stopping to scratch hishair every now and then. A single, silvery strand fell into his view atone point, which he did solve quickly with a single swipe of his hand.However as more strands continued to fall across his eyeline, he wasforced to swipe his hair back more and more. He grumbled, though wassurprised that his hair was behaving this way. Usually it stayed spiked."Must be. She finally said she would explain it better when they were back aboard the ship. While enroute to the vessel, he couldn't help returning to his previous thoughts that the woman was nuts.Captain Sanchez had gotten very thrilled about her announcement of finding the kids, but after not seeing them, he fell back into the 'I'm doing it for the money' mode. After over two months at sea, Allison had decided she could depend on the captain; he would not leave her stranded nor allow her to be harmed.