Chapter 19

Then Bud thought that since they were engaged now there would be no one else ever again for either of them so whomever she'd been with in the past was just that… past. But now it was better to concentrate on what she was doing for him. And he did. Once again noting just how good she was at it. He was almost done and he hadn't done anything for her yet! "Harriett stop!" he pleaded.

Backing away quickly she asked, "Buddy did I do something wrong? Did I hurt you?"

"No, no nothing like that," he told her sitting down on the bed next to her. "It's just that I didn't want to finish before I did something for you."

"Why do you think you'd be 'finished'?"

"Well…ummmm…it takes a while for a man to ummmm….to get ready again and I ummmm…didn't know if you'd want me to hang around that long."

"Well, first off, I didn't think you'd be just 'hanging around', I thought we'd be making love to each other…"

He interrupted, "But Harriett, it would've taken time until I can do that again!"

"Bud, you can make love with your hands and mouth too," she sighed. "And I wasn't expecting a quickie and then you running back to your room. I thought we'd have breakfast together."

"You'd want me to stay all night?! What about your reputation?! If someone saw me leaving here in the morning there could be talk!"

"Buddy, we're engaged now, no one will think badly of either of us."

"Oh yeah…but wait a minute! No one knows we're engaged yet!"

"If it will make you feel any better, you can add the announcement to the ship's daily announcements tomorrow morning. That way everyone will know."

"Hey, that's a great idea! And I better get you a ring too, just to remind all the other single guys you're taken!"

"Now was there anything else you wanted to get settled or could we get back to making love?"

Blushing to the roots of his hair, Bud hung his head and said he was done talking…for now.

Grinning she threw herself into his arms and they fell back onto the bed together.

Harriett awoke the next morning to the sound of Bud's voice coming from the pillow next to hers. He was frantically telling her, "Push, Harriett, push!"

He woke when she put her hand on his chest and assured him, "I'm here Bud and every thing's fine."

His smile brightened his face as he told her, "Everything is more than fine! I dreamed about you giving birth to our son AJ, and I know why we named him after Admiral Chegwidden now."

"You mean Vice President Chegwidden?"

"Well he's an Admiral in my dreams and he delivered our first child on the floor in his office. That's why we named the baby after him. You couldn't get to the hospital in time because the ambulance that was called for you took another woman, who was also in labor, instead."

"At least we were together," she smiled at him.

"No, for most of it at least, I was stuck in an elevator…"

"Elevator?"

"They were like turbo lifts, just not as fast. I was talking to you over a cell phone."

"Cell phone?"

"It's like the old style hand-held communicators that Star Fleet used to use."

"Wow, you even dream in antiques!" she marveled.

"I sure wish you could figure out what the dreams mean. Maybe then I would stop having them."

"I'll keep working on it Buddy. But since we're awake anyway, would you like to get up and do something, or try and get more sleep?"

Bud clearly didn't hear the desire in her voice that she wanted him to choose the first option. He asked the computer for the time and when he realized they didn't have to be up for two more hours yet, he gave her a quick kiss and voted for more sleep.

Harriett watched in astonishment as he was snoring in just moments after kissing her. In a huff, she hopped out of bed and headed for the sonic shower. As she imagined the two of them in the shower together, she pleasured herself thinking a bit snidely what Bud was missing.

To be continued…..