Still it would not be enough if there was some alien civilization invasion. He would have a look around, check on the bus and if there was more than h...e could handle, he would high tail and call in the cavalry. The problem was the closest full scale navy base was in the Small Magellan Cloud and it would take at least twenty days to get a Battle group here.He dropped out of quasi space. His long range sensors had not shown anything out of the ordinary, but now that he was in the Buonanno System. This wouldn’t be some peep show or just another blow-off class. They decided that even as the degree of sexual experience varied among them, they each wanted to learn more about human sexual desires and lifestyles, and to better understand their own as well. So with that, their choice had been made. They all took the AIDS test on Tuesday evening and now found themselves signing the bottom of the class consent form too. So it was with this resolve, though still filled with a sense of. He could smell the weed smoke in the house so he knew she’d been home not long ago. He set his work things down, and shrugged off his suit jacket and loosened his tie as he walked up the stairs to Carla’s room. It was there he found her laying on her bed, asleep. John closed her door and went to clean up. He returned to her room an hour or so later and found her still asleep. “Carla. Carla! Wake up, you have homework, and chores to do.” When she didn’t wake we shook her. He picked up her head. I knew that she was enjoying herself, but the depth of the emotion that she had expressed awed me. I didn't know how to respond. I pulled her up into my lap, and held onto her."I want you to know," I told her, "that I have enjoyed this week more than I have any other week in my entire life. Last Friday morning I thought my life was over, that I had given up one of the best things I'd ever had to pursue a dream of something I needed, but was sure I could never find. And then you came back and.