We had little to do with each other so the game we played became nothing, it was just a moment in time when she and I clicked on an intimate level. N...ot likely to happen again. It was a cold rainy day, mom and dad had left for an overnight trip to her 20th high school reunion and wouldn’t be back until the next afternoon. My sister was somewhere in the house, doing whatever sisters do. I was on my console hooked up with my internet team when my cell phone barked. I looked at the screen, Erin. As she sat up and began to take off her shirt, she looked over at the bookcase and shook her head.“Put that down,” she said, “there is no need for you to do that. You can watch but you know you will still have him after I go home tomorrow. That’s it, put it down. You can come closer if you want.”“Who are you talking to,” I asked?“You weren’t kidding about the ghosts,” she said as she continued to look at the bookcase, “One of them was going to throw that book at me.”“Don’t laugh at me, you. We all wore our nightshirts; the two girls both donned their largest pair of knickers so that they could wear a pad in case the tampon proved insufficient. I put Julie in the middle, and Vee and I cuddled into her. Both had warm hot-water bottles against their tummies. It had been a strenuous day, and we were all soon fast asleep.I woke up about eight, and left Julie and Vee in our bed; I made them a couple of mugs of tea and some toast, and refilled their hot water bottles. It wasn't. Shejust spent a year apart from him on the most important mission in humanhistory, and he couldn't keep it zipped up for 12 months. She was thesole female in a crowded all male vessel and managed to come back to himas pure as she left. To think after all that, he would have the nerve toask me to help him save face so he could win his place on the roster."It's a little late for that, Thompson wants to see you on Monday morningin his office. It sounds urgent." Did he say what he wanted?" he.