By now, s*x was starting to rear its entirely-too-attractive head everywhere you looked. As a teenager myself, I know how horny we can get. I was m**********g every night, and starting to realize just how wise I’d been to get the ship’s rules of s****l conduct promulgated (sorry, Bianca, but I love that word and don’t get nearly enough chance to use it) as early as I did. The rules don’t solve all our problems, of course, but I think we’d be in much worse shape without them.
Burke made a pass at me. It was crude and arrogant, and my nose wrinkled at the very thought. I told him, quite succinctly, that there were four other boys aboard, and if they should mysteriously drop dead, there were five other girls. If they, too, perished, I still had my right hand and my left hand—but if they got
