Okay, see you tonight.”Liam departed, wiping the back of his hand across his mouth. I must have snoozed. The next thing I heard was Melissa’s voic...e from my bedroom door. “Looks like that little negligee worked! Oh, my look at you…”I gave her a happy moan and rolled over. “Look at yourself, my little Red Bush.” And she directed me to sit up and look at the mirror on my dresser. I laughed out loud! My hair was a crusty mess, and Liam’s sperm had dried on my face.“Oh, well. I couldn’t be happier,”. There was a durplex bag hanging on the wall and he dropped the cup there as he headed for the bridge. Ross followed, the two men moving slowly in the zero G environment.Sixteen hours later, the two men, both fast asleep after having spent twelve straight hours ensuring their immediate survival and then focusing on the meticulous task of getting the systems sensors and computer systems setup to conduct a complete sweep of near space, were awakened by the blare of the ship's emergency. The clerk was now showing an expression of caution, as if he were dealing with a volatile group of lunatics. “Is ... uh ... all of this stuff together?” he asked slowly.“It is,” Gath told him. “I’ll lay derm for the cost. Go ahead and process it.”The clerk looked at the five carts again, making no move to start processing. “This is an awful lot of slag you all are buying,” he said.Gath looked back at the load for a moment, as if evaluating and quantifying it. Finally, he nodded. “Yes,” he said,. " My arms out, I gently let myself down on the wet ground. I heldmyself from the cold. "Now, Ashlee, here's what's going to happen. You'regoing to beg me to make out with you. You're going to tell me how great itwill be. And DO NOT STOP. Understand?"And so I started talking. It was even more humiliating than I'd dreamed. "Ilike think it would be soooo cool to like make out with you. I would likelove to taste like your mouth..." I babbled on, straining my ears? That'swhere I was. Had he swiped.