On the Line (Alternate Places Book 3) Read Online Free PDF Page B

team, no one really cares? But if their girlfriend did it,
things could go wrong pretty fast, right? In the real world we could keep
things insulated, but here, too many people know each other.” She moved in on
Kate and touched her shoulder in a way normal for her kind, but that would have
seemed like an invitation to have sex to a regular Human.
    “So, uh, about Don...” Swallowing, Brit waited for a few
seconds before continuing. “I... kind of promised Blaine that I wouldn't have
sex with him, since he's a friend and his roommate, you know how that is right?
I mean, if I had sex with him and then we had to break up for any reason, or I
slept with other guys or something and he dumped me, then Blaine would be
stuck, still living with him for the rest of the year. It's not a normal
situation, I mean how many Alede twins do you know, right? But that's why I
haven't been taking care of him like I should.”
    The other girl seemed really sad about the whole thing again,
looking down at her shoes for a while before going on. She chewed on her lip,
just the top one, which looked cute on her, but probably showed real distress,
rather than just game playing to try and work Kate into doing something. She
reached to her and touched her back gently, stroking her upper arm, running her
fingers on the soft cotton of her short shirt sleeve, then letting them linger
on the soft flesh below.
    “So, could you, you know, sleep with him or something? I
mean, if you two have a falling out, Blaine won't be stuck nearly as badly...
Yeah, you're our cousin , but it's not like we've talked about you or
anything, so maybe it's far enough away?”
    This made sense to Kate, "I'll look into it. I'm not
promising anything yet though. Still, he is decently cute, and nice seeming on
top of that. It looks good, so far."
    Don really did seem cute and funny, but also a little
depressed. If a bit of attention and sex would snap him out of that, which she
thought it might, she'd be more than willing to provide it. If, on the other
hand this turned out to go deeper than that, she didn't want to end up
responsible for a suicidal boy, angry at her for not making him totally
happy with life.
    Britney hugged her on the way out, then gave her a lingering
kiss, squeezing her behind a little before letting go of her. So fairly
ordinary as far as traditional greetings and partings with strangers went for
their kind. She kissed the girl back and did a little groping of her own, just
to let her know that she felt comfortable with her already.
    “Hey, don't forget sparring tomorrow night! Blaine will get
all weepy on me if he thinks I scared you off.” She laughed at this, but seemed
to mean it at the same time. As she left she looked back at Kate, smiling and
looking at her seductively, long blonde hair half hiding her face.
    She went through her classes the next day happily enough. It
surprised her that her hardest class wasn't, as she'd thought it would be,
math, but art history . The professor, a balding forty something named
Eilis gave them a paper on the first day. Five pages on the topic of trade
routes into and around the orient. Thankfully she'd done enough of the reading
to see the trap in this for her, since the Orient he referred to meant
the area around Persia, Mesopotamia, Asia minor and Egypt, not Asia or
China at all, which is what her first guess would have been. Since they hadn't
had the topic in class yet, she could tell that a lot of people would probably
get it wrong. She still would have had it wrong, she knew, if she hadn't read
the next several chapters in her textbook, using the dry text as a focusing
exercise, to help keep her mind in shape.
    Just to be sure, she checked it out with the professor after
class. She approached him boldly, standing nearer to him than most people would
with a virtual stranger. Taking in his scent, aftershave, mint from his breath
and something rich, like pipe tobacco, though he didn't have stained teeth