There hadn’t been much for Ruby to unpack, but she was glad now she had brought a few nice outfits along rather than donating them all before leaving Earth. She had the same flattering skirt and blouse combo she’d worn a few years earlier when she and Jen had met at a solar system exploration convention. She smiled at herself as she got dressed, remembering the feel of Jen’s hands sliding up her legs, the thrill of being in her late forties and still getting away with wild s*x in a bathroom during panels.
She and Jen had always been that way, colliding into each other one place or another and simply exploding. Ruby was not sure how exactly it had happened—for a while in their twenties they had tried seeing each other, but it just hadn’t worked out. They had their own paths and different l
