You're only nineteen. You do know this is a serious offense because you're no longer a minor, correct?" Correct, sir." I could feel the tears welling ...p in my eyes. Bad situations and alcohol just did not mix well together.He sighed. "Get up against the car. I have to pat you down to make sure you don't have anything on you, though I doubt you have much in that little black dress of yours." I leaned against my car, putting my hands on the roof and waiting for the punishment to continue. The man. You don’t live in this town and not at least know of the man that stands beside me now. No, he is definitely the talk of the town ninety-five percent of the time, and ninety percent of that ninety-five is usually about something bad he’d been caught doing in the past. He doesn’t talk much, but his lack of verbal communication is made up for by his tell-all eyes which have let me see a few things that make me believe that not everything you hear is true. This place has been my home since I was. ’ Besides, it’s not like we’ll never see each other again. You’re going to be coming up to see me all the time, and I’ll have the use of Martin’s little jet to visit you too.”“Oh, I know,” Kat sighed hugging onto her dear friend. “It’s just...”Amber said through her tears, “It’s like the end to a major part of our lives – our threesome. We were the three musketeers or whatever we would have been as three women doing flamboyant and daring things. We were one for all and all for one. And then we. Somehow he only hopes he can turn the near defeat into a victory. “What is it?” he asks with anger flaring in his eyes.The officer steps back involuntarily, stammering over the words in his head before finally gathering the courage to speak them. “Our formation is lost,” he quickly says. “The Jiangli, Mingxing, and Biaolong have all been sunk. The rest of the fleet is too far out to provide us with ample protection.”Delun Tong’s hope is starting slip away even further than before. Anger swells.