I look at my paper, and drift off into tingling, smiling, welcoming fantasy. Well, come on, I’m eighteen. I should be allowed these few fantasies. ~...‘Come on!’ He leads me down the path. ‘Where are we going?’ I can’t help but giggle. ‘Hurry, we don’t have a lot of time.’ He says, ‘And I want to show you something!’ The bell, again. It calls me from my fantasy, and back to my very boring reality. ~ ‘Come on!’ He waves, ‘It’s lunch.’ I walk ahead of him and catch up with Terri. ‘Have you met the. What words could I possibly use to explain why I had allowed myself to be used, to be so utterly debased in front of all those people. Had this woman told him about me, did he know it was me she was talking about. As my thoughts twirled around my head Jack reminded me of why I love him so dearly by saying. “Honey I hope you don’t mind that I indulged in this without you but when I went looking for you, it seemed when I found you, that you were so busy that you didn’t see me standing beside you.. ’ ‘Bye,’ he said, obviously still amused with her. Jane ended the phone call and sighed, running her fingers through her hair. Glancing sideways, she took in the purse she’d dropped, the contents of which she’d scattered around the couch when digging for her cell phone. Then the large, overturned ottoman she’d tripped over. And then the scrunched rug she’d twisted as she slid and fell to the floor, where she now sat, encircled with fallen business cards, the platter they normally sat on halfway. This was his fifth space flight. Susanna was on her second flight as a payload specialist.At 15:58, Susanna pushed her way through the airlock onto the B Deck. Among the areas on this level were the sleeping quarters for the crew."What's up, Commander?" she teased James."Well, being the commander, I get to make the schedule for the crew. Right now, Hanson and Watts are doing outside measurements and Greene and Nywen are supporting that effort. That leaves Stewart and Stewart on Scheduled.
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