Chapter Eleven
“So, what do you think?” Pearl asked later that evening.
Tina rubbed her forehead and scowled at her grandmother. Between the conversation that had taken most of the afternoon, the strain of the last week, and her realization that she was attracted to an alien, she had the beginnings of a migraine coming on. Their grilling of Viper about his world had only added to her stress as she tried to figure out how to deal with the information he had shared. The idea of leaving the bar to go to Righteous, New Mexico had been difficult enough for her to deal with. The idea of traveling to another star system was beyond mind-boggling.
Now, on top of that, she was feeling guilty about not giving Viper a stronger warning about eating too many jelly beans. She was suddenly overcome wit
