She sat down on her bed and exhaled loudly, unaware up till now that
she had been holding her breath until she had reached the privacy of her
quarters.
Not being able to have something, she reflected, made you want it all the more. She leaned forward slightly, lacing her fingers together, resting them between her knees. She sat there, desperately trying to drive out thoughts of him. His smile, his eyes, the way he smelled if he ever leaned near her.
Uncharacteristically, she reached for a pillow and hugged it, settling herself back against the wall. Rational thinking, she decided, was not of much use her. Not only where her own reactions increasingly less than rational, she was dealing, she often thought with the least rational man on many, many planets. No, that wasn't exactly fair. Or justified. She just didn't understand his logic. Or him. In the slightest.
There weren't too many things that the Sub-Commander was confused about. And the one thing she still knew with any certainty was that there was never and could never be anything between her and Charles Tucker III. And she would have to deal with it, as he so often told her.
Not being able to have something, she reflected, made you want it all the more. She leaned forward slightly, lacing her fingers together, resting them between her knees. She sat there, desperately trying to drive out thoughts of him. His smile, his eyes, the way he smelled if he ever leaned near her.
Uncharacteristically, she reached for a pillow and hugged it, settling herself back against the wall. Rational thinking, she decided, was not of much use her. Not only where her own reactions increasingly less than rational, she was dealing, she often thought with the least rational man on many, many planets. No, that wasn't exactly fair. Or justified. She just didn't understand his logic. Or him. In the slightest.
There weren't too many things that the Sub-Commander was confused about. And the one thing she still knew with any certainty was that there was never and could never be anything between her and Charles Tucker III. And she would have to deal with it, as he so often told her.
