He informed her that they both started working at the firm together and that they both had only recently been promoted to the level of audit managers.... They fed her stacks of receipts to type into lined columns on the audit sheets and she stayed busy for the entire day forgetting completely about lunch. When Stanley told her it was almost quitting time, she realized she had to pee in the most desperate way and was mortified to ask the pertinent question of,"Where is the Ladies room?"Virgil who. We drank. We experienced. We filled ourselves with anything and everything we could find. It was all new. Experimenting and exploring. Our senses, insatiable. Attentions so pure. Sometimes we floated on top of them and sometimes they pulled us under as we immersed ourselves in another person or indulgence. Sometimes they were fleeting, our interest only needing a taste. Always, they were real. Bodies and minds: we brought them together in creativity and the dance that is youth. We lived to. Erene and Daniella appeared at the bridge door, shivering a bit in fear, and clutching each other’s hand for support. “Captain, what’s going on?”, Daniella asked over the clatter of the horn, and I snapped a command to cancel the alert sound but keep us at combat footing. My fingers were flying over the keypad, trying to find a way to scramble the interdictor drones, but still had a little bit of mind to appreciate the little bit of wispy nothings that they apparently slept in.“We’re being. “What about college?”“I’ve already called and explained you won’t be in the rest of the week. They will let your relevant lecturers know!”“I have work on Thursday too!”“Don’t worry sweetie, I will call Derek as well and explain the situation.” She squeezes my hand. “Don’t worry everything is going to be ok” she says as she takes her free hand and squeezes my sisters’ hand. The rest of the day my mom doesn’t leave us alone. We share a light dinner together in my room before they have to leave to.