but when youre actually , you know , working for a living , you can manage to forget things for a while . besides housing a few colonies of aliens , the asteroid was a galaxy hopper . `` get up right now , young lady . emma sat up straight , torn out of sleep , her mouth opening on a scream . she turned over to face me and our lips met for the second time . right then the girls came in . for being a house that three guys occupied , it was pretty clean . 