" Hartwell looked at Derrick, "You are obviously the commanding officer on this ship couldn't you let her go? I mean just for tonight? I'm sorry, that... is if you aren't involved with her." "Oh I am in a way," Derrick started, laughing then smiling, Derrick explained when Hartwell's face showed the confusion he was feeling. "You see the reason she can't leave the ship is because she IS the ship." Hartwell started to laugh, then he saw that Derrick was dead serious; laughing a little more his. When we look each other in the eyes, it’s as if we’re discovering each other’s sex for the first time. The hookah is between us and our delicious, minty smoke intermingles in a cloud around us, and then you whisper, ‘I want you Jamie. Tonight. I can’t take this anymore.’ Because Stephanie and I have been friends for so long, you know that I’m a virgin, and the thought of taking the last of my innocence excites you to no end. Until tonight you have always treated me as a little sister,. ’ After a moment of silence, Derek dismissed the thought of Vivian’s relation and said, ‘Just send her back home.’ ‘She’s not stayin’ the night?’ ‘She’s not staying ever. I’ve decided I can’t marry her.’ Sykes grunted a response, stood up from his chair and came over to knock a good one on his master’s head. ‘What the devil are you doing?’ Derek demanded, rubbing the side of his head gingerly. ‘Cannot let you make a mistake, milord.’ Sykes said with all the politeness of a real butler. ‘Got. Tom looked around and seeing nowhere else to sit, he lifted Beth's legs and sat on the couch with her, resting her feet across his lap.I said 'It's getting late; I better get Beth home to bed.'Tom replied. 'I think you've had a bit too much to drink to think of driving, why not stay the night. Beth looks quite comfy, I can throw a blanket over her and if you're OK in that armchair..?''Yes! Yes I'll be fine here thanks.'That settled, so not having to worry about driving, I started sipping at my.