J. Thompson from England. Egan O'Reilly and his family from Ireland. Eilidh Carroll from Boston. Blaine Jackson and his wife Selena, also from Boston...."They have all visited us several times. Blaine and Selena's son and daughter have joined us."This may not affect any of you, but our calendar is a little different to Earths. Our day, or clock cycle, is exactly 24 hours long. We generally reserve using the word 'day' to when we are referring to time on Earth. Our week consists of ten clock. "No problem, we'll probably have guests around though," I replied."Ah yes, the Krav Maga class your good lady was telling me about," he confirmed."That's the one," I replied and led the way back to the cabin.The walk back took the same amount of time, but seemed to pass quicker in my perception as I was still going over my options with dealing with Ali. My biggest temptation was simply to go down and kill the little shit and hope I wasn't recognised. Though the furore over the murder of a. And with me there to take care of, well sheprobably felt she should just stay home. That’s when itall started. She started having a drink when she gothome from work. just to relax I’m sure she believed.Then it became 2 drinks each night… etc…I suppose they were supposed to relax her. First it wasa beer, and then the beer progressed to Tequila. She’dhave a couple of shots and sometimes knock out on thecouch watching TV. Mom really didn’t drink much, so acouple. She asked if she could call the police for me so I could report the rape. I said, ‘No.’ She said, she would tell me the preliminary test results before I left. The gravity of my unprotected night with a stranger was dawning on me. We left the clinic around six p.m. All the quick tests’ results were negative. The AIDS test would take a few days. Again Todd was quiet. All the way home. He never spoke. I felt he was ready to explode. I was expecting the worst when we got home. ‘Brandy, please go.