Even though herclasses were more difficult, she continued to make almost all A gradeswith an occasional B. She continued to train at the karate club,...andactually won first place womens brown belt fighting and kata at a majortournament in Dallas. She continued to date Carl, and the two werebecoming even closer than before, but she still refused to have sex withhim. Even though she rejected the rigidity of her families church, shestill mostly had her general Baptist values, and currently. A tingle, like an electric pulse, shot up my arm when our fingers touched. I wondered if she felt it too… ‘Oh Da, give up making such a big thing of my birthday! It’s stopped being cool! Pleased to meet you Mister Hicks…sorry, but he’s been telling people about it all day.’ ‘Old enough to vote…? That makes you eighteen…!’ My goodness, that blew away my estimate of her age! I hoped the shock didn’t show in my face! ‘…congratulations on your birthday anyway, and it’s a pleasure to meet you too. Wonderingwhat the hell is going to happen next. Knowing that soon she would be raped,tortured, killed? She felt a budge at her chair and several ticks, and thenthe whole chair moved on wheels rolling backwards out of the jet into a welllit closed hanger, again with no windows on the building. No way of knowingwhat the environment was, where she was, not even what time of day it was.Shaking in her bonds as she thinks to her self "Thank god I only drank lastnight and didn't eat a heavy dinner.. Shall we say ... livid?"The sooner you two ... officers ... are off my base, the better."The disdain present in his pronunciation of the word officers managed to make it a dirty word ... similar to fucking idiot or mentioning that we had only one locatable ancestor and she never married. We were careless children, unfit to grace his base with our presence.He sent us to the base psychiatrist ... who sent us back with the words, "They're pilots, fer chrissake, what did you expect." and, "They.