Melvin: “I always knew that she was in love with you and Kristen, and I was okay with that, even when I couldn’t understand how she could love two persons in the same way and with apparently the same intensity, but I got used to it; nevertheless each time I observed her looking from afar toward you two when you didn’t notice, I saw her suffer and noiselessly cry, hidden from everybody, even from me, but I managed to see her; one day I encouraged her to mend fences with you and Kristen, and when she did it, everything changed, she became a happy woman, it was then I realized that her feelings weren’t the same for both of you, she had a very special feeling for you, Louise; I understand now…, she chose to save you at the cost of her own and Kristen’s life

”Louise: “yes…, she told me, she and Kristen talked the last minutes before the alien attack, they both took the decision, and yes, I knew we had and still have something very special”

Melvin: “you are her, you know, she made you what you are”

Louise: “yes…, she made me; she was my life…”

Melvin: “she will wait for you”

Louise: “yes, I know, she and Kristen will wait, as well as Dina will wait for Sharon”

Sharon: “I know baby, Dina herself told me that in my dreams”

Louise resumed her way to her apartment with Sharon and Melvin left the building toward her house, he usually slept in one of the apartments of the annex, but not this time, he has to do something else this night.

New Pasadena, 6:00 am. Thursday, December 20, 2057. New CalTech-Biochemistry building – Annex –Porter – Kennard’s apartment

Bette is waking up from her long night of making out; after the sudden communal dream of the vision of her mother, and having dinner later with her saddened family, she and her girlfriend left to their apartment where Tina had prepared two wonderful surprises for her birthday; the blonde has given her the title of a property, a house in the most luxurious neighborhood in New Pasadena, Tina has bought it with part of her savings and investments from her ‘little risky business’, the ones she still manage to do, though in very limited way, secretly (or so she thinks) from her mother; though Bette knew about Tina’s hidden activities and she helped her most of the times, she never wanted to receive a penny, and told Tina, to save it for their common future, and taking her beloved girlfriend’s word, the blonde has invested some of that money in a farm-house  deluxe, registered in Bette’s name; but the brunette has stated that she would accept the gift, only if the title is in the name of the two of them; and after a useless discussion, finally, they have spent almost one hour in the htab adding Tina’s name in the title. But it was the second gift that truly reached her heart (and other parts of her body), because, following the new property, the blonde had another surprise for her girlfriend; she took Bette to their bedroom and sat her on the edge of the bed and asked her to stay still, then, Tina took two pair of handcuffs with long chains from the nightstand drawer and put them on the brunette’s wrists and hook the other ends on the bed frame, after which she entered to the closet and came back wearing a very seductive and rather short purple silk lace nightgown, almost transparent to the point of showing the tiny underwear consisting of a translucent bralette and a tight thong, which could be loosed and removed and thrown away by pulling a small silk tie on the side of the garment, the underwear is made from the same material and color than the sleeping gown; Bette’s face shone and a huge lusty smile was drawn on her face.