All the attention embarrassed me. I was speechless.When we got back to the office, the three of us found an empty mattress pad on the floor inside my ...gun vault. The gun vault had been Ed's storeroom. We piled up like puppies and went quickly to sleep. Even when the office came to life, we stayed asleep. The idea was not to sleep like the dead, but to sleep, so that lack of sleep didn't make you dead.I awoke several hours later to find that Lucas had run the mouse all over the plant. He had also. He let out a groan and stopped his thrusts, but as soon ashe was done, he pushed me roughly off of his lap to the floor."Shut off the VCR and then come up and tuck me in to 'my bed',I am tired and need some sleep," he said as he stood up,gathered up his clothes and headed out of the room. The tears started to flow from my eyes as I saw him making hisway towards the stairs, when he was out of sight, the sobsbegan.How did I get myself into this? How will I get myself out ofthis? A man's home is. She launched herself at Aaron, wrapped both of her hands around his neck in a death grip, buried her head in between his shoulder and chest, and kept alternating between great wracking sob, that caused her body to shake violently, and trying to talk very fast.Now all the patrons of the tavern were staring quietly and openly at her reaction. You could have heard a pin drop it was so quiet from them.Aaron didn't know what to do, except hold her while she sobbed so pitifully.Gemma kept saying over. “I haven’t done that for a while. Did you like it?”“Yeah, it was good,” I replied. “Once I got the hang of it, and stopped worrying that I would trip us up. That fall last time was enough for me, but at least I could blame that on someone else.”“Oh, and didn’t you like how you landed then?” she teased me. “At least you know how to dance, and how to hold me.”I guess I had seen more couples dancing over the past four months than I had seen in all of my life before then, so I had a pretty good.