”“No, no,” sit down, Lyn said. “Thelma is right, you are adults now. I don't think I'll be embarrassed by you being here. Especially if Todd w...ould sit by me, please.”I walked over and sat next to Lyn. I didn't know it, but Lyn had already told her friends about how our relationship was. Not one of the women said a word or gave a disapproving look; as I sat next to Lyn. She took my hand and placed it on her bare thigh.Jake sat on a big comfy overstuffed chair. Betty looked at him; but made no. Once Ship had located the interceptors, she and Jeff watched the squadron practice over the next half hour.As Jeff sat in the command seat sipping coffee and discussing the practice with Ship and Kayla, Ship interrupted to say, “My sensors are picking up some extremely low-level energy emissions coming from there,” she said as her screen focused on a section of the belt that was several light seconds from the action.“Magnify, please,” Jeff told her.Ship’s best magnification of the asteroid that. Maybe I deserved it. I'm sure I did as far as he was concerned. High school quarterback, naïve sophomore cheerleader, back seat of his car. I'm sure you can imagine the rest. He wanted me to get an abortion and I threatened to report him for statutory rape if he didn't marry me. We eventually married and three months later Kyle was born.I'm sure there were other girls in the months before we went down to City Hall with my certified birth certificate and a note signed by my parents, then got a. I had the car already picked out too. That’s why I was so depressed when the boss sent me home early today. Sure I had screwed up today but not as bad as some of the other guys have in the past. The boss told me that he was doing this to teach me a lesson. Some lesson! It would just take me longer to earn my car now. I figured that I could buy the car and insurance a whole week before school started but not with these delays like this.My mother is thirty-nine years old and a real beauty. She is.