" I reminded myself. I knew that as well. I had a bit of flashback from that Sunday night brush with severe legal wrangling if not death itself. "What...if you'd lived and Girl was killed?" I'd not considered that possibly until this moment. "How bout you dying and Girl living?"Cully, don't leave me here." Why did I keep pondering her words from that wedding night? "Christ, I pray it's not a harbinger." "Me too." & then answered myself: "Because it's germane to what happened and what almost. Thank you." "You have the next two days off, Persey," Naomi informed me with arather interesting little smile. "Go have some fun, you've earned it." As to what kind of fun I found... Well I'll leave that for you to figureout. It shouldn't be too hard to do. I'm pretty sure I don't need tomention that Al was ecstatic, and not just over my promotion. * * * * Communications with Earth had become very spotty over the months sinceHeinlein had boosted out of. ‘Now if you think you can do it politely, please tell us about your previous sexual experiences,’ I told him. He glared at me. ‘Told you already I’ve never done it before. Oh, I could have, lots of times. But my Dad made me promise to wait. He told me, ‘These little bitches at the Country Club would like to let you into their pants so they can claim you knocked them up and shake me down for a lot of money. You just keep it in your pants for now, boy.’ And my Dad knows…just about everything.’. “Is this it?” she asked. “Yes it is,” I replied, taking in a deep breath and forcefully exhaling. Donna turned on her knees and crawled toward me. As she did her towel came untied and fell open. She tried to grab it, but wasn’t fast enough. “I’m sorry,” Donna exclaimed, trying to cover herself. “No biggie,” I replied. “I’ve seen boobs before.” With one hand holding her towel, she stretched to hand me the plumber's tape. She fell forward, landing on my leg, her face just inches from my raging.