We were both just 16 then. Jeff and I had known each other since we'd started school and more or less grown up together passing through childhood ...nd now well into puberty. "Have you ever had a wet dream?" he said, breaking the bored silence. "What the fuck's that ? I replied visualising he meant something about the rain that was now beating with ever increasing intensity on my bedroom window. "It's when you have a dream about sex with someone - and it becomes so. I loosen your tie and remove it, I begin unbuttoning the buttons of your white dress shirt as you pull me closer to you. I can feel you growing hard under your slacks and its driving me crazy, I pull your shirt out from where it is tucked into your pants, a groan escapes your lips and you begin to rhythmically grind into me. The sounds of your desire throw me into an animalistic frenzy and I pull your shirt open, buttons fly every which way and I can barely keep my hands steady as I unfasten. Welcome to the Rhino neighborhood.”Before Gerald could say anything Sally put out her hand and warmly replied, “Hi Loretta, I’m Sally and this is my husband Gerald. He’s just been hired by Rhino as part of their new expansion. I guess either you or your husband also works for Rhino?”Gerald was pretty much sidelined as the two women held hands and looked at each other. Loretta liked what she saw as did Sally. “Yes, my husband Able works in their phone programming department. He’s helping them. Silent sobs wracking her whole body. At this moment she knew all her fears were true. Spc4 Jake Maddock died a hero in some dirty, far off land that no one in the prairies of Nebraska could either know the location of or even care about. It was not fair. Ann and Jake had barely begun their life together. And now it was over, finished. ‘Mrs. Maddock? Are you there?’ Picking up the receiver Ann said simply, between the tears, ‘Yes.’ ‘Your husband, Jake was badly wounded near the town of Basra..