" Where are you gonna be?" I asked him."Right downstairs, baby. Having a cup of coffee." He smiled at me and reached out, taking my hands and pulling ...me up. "This ain't nothin' but a thing, girl. This guy, he don't matter, right? Just me and you, that's all. You do this right and I'm gonna take care of you, okay?" Okay," I whispered, thinking that I was probably being exceptionally stupid.There was a knock at the door and Deke let me go as we both looked at it."Go on," he motioned with his. Michael hesitated, wondering whether he should tell Samantha about hisown "feminine life style." He finally said, "I'd love to hear about itsometime." You shall," Samantha said, "I'd love to hear about your life now, andhow you're doing now, without our dear Doris." Samantha," Michael liked the way it sounded. "I miss her terribly. Youknow she understood me so well. We made a great couple."They talked for over an hour, but Michael, even though he was wearing anew pair of women's shorts he'd. I made some suggestions from time to time, we all did, but suit development got turned over to a research focus group with nothing else to do. I think that it was run by one of the few NASA people we had. He, at least, knew something about spacesuits!We knew that what we had come up with needed more work, but we had the bare minimum for what we needed right then which was a way to keep us from all dying when something went wrong. Of course the aliens and their AIs knew all about spacesuits;. CC ... We had agreed that nothing more could happen between us until...”“Oh, Davey, just kiss her already. The sooner you do, the sooner you can get to the counselor’s office. You don’t wanna be too late, or you’ll get called out on it,” Amber said while giving me the go-ahead nod.Looking at my sister, I could tell that she was torn between staying to watch or getting out of there as fast as she could. She rolled her eyes at me and made a tiny hand gesture that CC couldn’t see, signaling me to.