The kiss doesn't surprise me, but it does delight me. It's not that I had seen it coming using my prescience, either, more that I read Jackie's body language and sort-of guessed that was what she was about to do. It was nice. Softer than any kiss I'd had in the past. Being able to see the future, however dimly and unreliably, has enabled me to pick only those sexual encounters that I knew would be enjoyable and wouldn't lead to any complications. I've never used any form of contraception, because if I saw a possibility where I got pregnant, or caught something nasty, I refused to have sex.<br/><br/>And suddenly I was wondering why I'd never considered lesbian relationships before. But Jackie had moved on. She handed me this plastic cube with colours on it. I looked at her puzzled as she explained what it was for. I was about to point out that what she was saying was silly, until she explained that it was there for misdirection. I laughed. "You might want to get me a spare, in case someone confiscates it to find out if it's a radio of some sort?" I'm not sure if I'm joking or not. I can't see that sort of detail that far ahead, but I've read enough fiction and seen enough TV shows to know that if I claim this innocent little cube is telling me what random choices to make, someone is going to want to take the thing apart to find out what it is, if it actually seems to work.<br/><br/>Her idea for a student ID seems to work - I can't see it not working anyway. And her reassurance about avoiding the Mafia helps too. I nodded. This is going to be interesting. The next kiss takes me by surprise though. It is hot and passionate and her tongue invades my mouth. As she pulls away, all I can say is "Ahhh?" I manage to close my mouth and nod. "Sure... Uh... yeah, ready when you are..."<br/><br/>While she is changing, I try and explain a bit more about how it works "The future isn't fixed. That's all I know. It's like... like a tree. Like right now, I can agree to go to dinner with you or I can go back to my hotel. If I go to dinner with you, you could buy me drinks all evening or you could refuse to buy me more than three. If you buy me drinks all evening, I might throw up all over you, or I might be able to hold the drink. If I hold the drink, I might pass out in the taxi on the way back here, or I might make it back here before I pass out..." I was blushing. "It all depends on so many different factors. I could deliberately choose to follow one path over another, like I could choose to go home, or I could choose not to drink, but mostly I have no control. I did deliberately cut the deck for mister grumpy to win that hand... but after that I didn't know what cards would come up until they came into my view..." I shrug then. "It's the same with you and me. I can see it happening in like three quarters of the probable futures. And..." I blushed. "...And I'd quite like that, yeah? But it doesn't have to happen. We can be partners without being lovers... If that's what you'd prefer..."<br/><br/>I'm giving her the option, because I can feel how much I want this. I can also see in her face that she wants me too. I'm no good at reading people normally, but it's like someone has written the word "LUST" on her forehead in letters of fire, whenever she looks at me. "Just saying, you know? You can tell me to go away and never come back, and it will happen." Actually, it wouldn't, because there was not one single future in which she said it... "Um... okay, ready when you are, lover!"