" Sean took a deep breath before grimly continuing. "There are also reports from some astronomers of a killer asteroid the size of two football fields... due to hit earth in 2036. That would be an extinction event."Sean looked around at the worried faces at the table before continuing."We have known what we would be facing, and now we know that it has started. Keep that in mind as you listen to the reports from other departments. Think about the challenges in your own department. Look for kernels. Her leopard skin flat shoes were order of the day so we didn't attract too much attentionShe was really getting into this and she let me write a text on her phone that we sent to him saying that if he was working in the supermarket he might get a nice surprise. Straight away we got a message back saying he was bored and needed something to liven up a long shiftI could tell by our kisses in the car before she went in she was really horny and she sent another message saying that the surprise. ’ ‘He always has been a bastard, Becky. Look what he did when I was dating your mother.’ ‘What did he do?’ ‘Oh you don’t know, no one has ever told you?’ ‘No they haven’t, should I have known?’ ‘I don’t know, perhaps the right opportunity never came up. But your gran and grandfather knew all right.’ ‘I suppose that’s why they didn’t look too surprised when you dropped the bombshell on us this evening.’ ‘Neither were a lot of other people. It’s been what you might call common knowledge with some. .”“Cassie, stop!” I demanded, ending her fumbling and rambling questions. “Cassie, this ‘electrical buzzing’ you’re talking about between us is so damned strong I literally wake up counting the days, or the hours, until I’m going to see you again.” I had, of course, promised this would remain forever my little secret, but what the hell was I supposed to do? I couldn’t bear to see her suffer like this. I realized my feelings for her were perhaps stronger than I had anticipated.Her face lit up.