. um... really well..." he tried to explain delicately, while squinting and nodding his head. "This whole thing isn't as crazy as it sounds. She wants... to spend more time with me, too. We agreed that if I join the swim team, we'll see each other more often." This seems crazy. Your campus is filled with hotties. What's so special about her?" She's smart and beautiful, like you, mom," Brian said, playing to Tear’sa's love of flattery. "And we have a real connection."The tone in Brian's voice was. Guys were the thirty five year old, Mercedes, BMW types, that liked flashy well built ladies, that knew what a bed room was for. Jodi would fit right in. Melissa didn't know what she didn't know.The "Other World" band pumped out the sounds to a jam-packed house. Two hundred Kittens and Tomcats viewed each other swaying in the flashing lights. Voices had to be raised to be heard. Neither Jodi nor Melissa spent much time at their table, as each had gentlemen wanting to swing and sway with them.Ed. “Well, at least we know there are survivors,” I shrugged. “I’m pretty sure that Crnnch’s people will find them more reasonable ... well, I hope so, otherwise I suspect it will get very messy, very quickly.”“The orbital platforms are still in place, though not manned ... Orced ... whatever,” Róisín giggled.“Their launch facilities are in central Africa. Alice’s team are looking into it,” I shrugged. “Any more potential survivors?”“That way, about five miles though,” she pointed.“Well, we haven’t. Vincennes ruminations on his predicament, he recognised and resented, had taken on an inevitable familiarity now. Every twenty-four hours seemed no more than a repetition of the last as his thoughts took on the same numbing consistency of the day before. Except as insights into parts of his psyche he’d been oblivious to before her appearance in his life; nothing resembling either the stimulating or the plain interesting distinguished the events preceding one Vincennes bedtime from another and.