Donna whispers to me, and asked me if I was going to go through with this. I assured her that I would. I could tell she was having second thoughts abo...ut the deal. Then we went into Jakes bedroom, where it was going to happen. oh wow, this was it, crunch time! We stood there for a time and looked at the bed…. soo, getting on with it, they get into us Was it me or was it getting hot in here? Mike leans against the wall and flashes a condom packet at me with a grin. Jake starts giving orders, . It really wasn't any of my business anyway.I didn't see Joe for the rest of the week. MaryAnn and I had our meals together and we chatted about what we thought about taking dancing lessons. Neither one of us had ever learned to dance."I had no interest in dancing when I was in high school. Most of the boys in my school didn't know how to dance, and the ones that did thought of it as foreplay."I burst out laughing when she said that."I didn't learn how to dance either. I guess it was because it. ’ All very well for him to say, but there was a lot of wattage landing on her face. Slowly she saw the bar of the scanner moving up and then down. She could feel the heat of it as a bar striping over her face. She thought about the robot form that would try and reproduce her face. Zak had explained it all to her, but as usual she only understood vaguely what he was talking about. Her own special subject was biology and she was interested in how robots could mimic people, but not that interested. .. please don’t take this personally, but ... well, things have changed for us, too. Look, we’ve tried to be polyamorous, and well, it works for me, but it doesn’t work for Jan. It just doesn’t. Rick can stomach it, as you noted, because his monogamy was nurture, not nature, at work. It was his upbringing at fault, if you will. I hope that you find the best arrangement for you guys, amid all of us, and I honestly want you to be happy, okay, but this is done. You ... me ... all of us. We can’t.