" "That must very frustrating." Margaret smiled, stroking his thigh. "Henry would you do Mommy a special favor for you?" "What?" "...Would you take the towel out of the way, so Mommy can take a look at your penis?" "Jeez, Mom!" "I just want to see if it's normally developed, Henry. See? I'm very willing to teach you about sex, honey. I think it's part of my duty to you as a mother. Don't be shy, Henry. Please." Henry stared at his mother for several. Elsewhere.” She took an absentminded sip, swallowed it without pausing to analyze or savor, and stared at the wall for a while before continuing. “Luke, are we okay?”The urge to dissemble, deny, and defend was enormous, but he shunted it aside. We’re already out of time for anything but the truth. “I think we are ... I hope we are ... but we’ve had a pretty unusual week. Extreme highs, extreme lows, and everything in between. Nothing’s as easy as it was before. It’d be better if we had a little. (It was Brittany)"Whats up? " I know I said we would hang out tonight, and I hope you still want to, but Erin's mom just called my house and apparently some thing happened with her grandma.... She is gonna have to staying the night. "Oh...I mean, I still want to, but how are WE gonna hang out?"Call up Steve? They should be able to keep each other company... "Alright ill see what I can do" Erin and Steve met a few weeks ago at this party we were at. There was a mutual interest between the two. She glanced over her shoulder, "I'd get strapped in if I was you, we're heading for the pass."Bert nodded and headed back into the shuttle's hold. The flight plan they were following dropped them down on the far side of the polar icecap from the base and then led them along a tortuous path that they hoped would mask them from the Sa'arm ship in orbit and anything the dickheads had deployed on the ground.The rear of the shuttle looked huge now that the academics and all of their 'essential' gear.