We don’t know how long we’ll be down here.”“Good point,” said Julia.The group filed out of the cave, and Jack’s voice floated out after th...em, “I brought some more sports drink, and a sandwich and pudding for you, dear. Also some wipes and baby powder to help you feel a little fresher...”They walked for a bit, and Linda said, “He really does love her, doesn’t he? He’s not, like, in thrall to her or anything. That was real loving care.”“Yep. They were dating when this whole thing started,. ’ With that Matt stopped talking to let his companions think through his advice as he took a slurp from his bottle. John was the first to say anything. ‘It would be hard to hide anything for any length of time and we would eventually mention something that a shady lawyer could use against us. It would also be too obvious and suspicious if we suddenly moved out of the house on a more permanent basis. How soon would the work be done?’ ‘If I can organise it now the exterminators should be able to. ’ ‘Oh.’ Ian’s fifty times cuter. Granted Kyle was tall and dark and handsome too, with violet eyes—contacts of course—and dirty blond hair ruffled enough to be rock-star material. He wore a low-cut black shirt and from where Sara sat, she could see a silver chain around his neck. His voice, she would admit sounded charmingly delicious, even when he sang the words ‘I wanna be your gay lover…’ Was he gay? ‘We can meet them later.’ ‘Really? Then Lisa’s going to miss out.’ ‘He’s not her type. Your. Something may happen and I will be overseas for years in some conflict with the Soviets, like World War III. But so long as nothing changes from now to then, we will be engaged, then married.”She gave me a huge hug and then a deep kiss, and I could feel her tears on my cheeks. At that point Peggy and Mike came back up, and asked what was wrong. “Oh, nothing. I was just reminding Linda here what exactly this ring means, and how serious I take our commitment when I gave it to her last year. It is.