”“Show me your hands Ellen,” Natalia’s softly spoken voice almost commanded. Ellen chuckled as she lifted her hand close to Natalia’s face.N...atalia had seen enough already and as she had placed a kiss on the immaculately manicured fingers she asked with a small voice, “How long did you know?”“Since I had detected the nanites in your body,” Ellen responded calmly, “and that was at the moment we hugged this afternoon.”Natalia stared at the woman, who had blatantly exposed herself and it was hard. I had been dreaming yet again that Dale would give me a hint of something more than friendship. ‘We’re boarding. Y’all comin’ or not?’ I never cared for Brad. I never cared for Bryan, either. Jared wasn’t bad in his own way, but… oh, I’ll get to all that in its own time. ‘Yeah, we’re comin’,’ Dale shot back for both of us. We caught up with the other three as they joined the line heading into the walkway. Takeoff was uneventful, and soon enough, the flight attendants began their slow trek down. They knew her association of thebakery.Finding out that she had worked on the cake that everyone was enjoying,Beth was suddenly very popular."How did you build that?" I bet that took forever to make all those tiny people." That is seriously the coolest thing I've ever seen." One of thecheerleaders said. "Nice work....Um...?" Beth." She said, and it became an afternoon that she would remember.Finally part of the world she saw and loved from her bedroom window.And Beth; the girl that had begun. I searched for a while with no luck. Then I saw something that would be even better. An ice house on a corner had big poles in front to stop cars from running into the building. But on the side there were smaller poles that I thought would be perfect. As I parked on the side of the store, I saw there was a parking lot in back with more of the same poles sticking up from the ground. They were about one inch in diameter and were tall enough I would have to stretch a little to get on one. I picked.