I tried, however, to improvise and do it quickly. Erna, in her sexy smalls, was almost, and I totally, naked. What had happened had not yet discourage... either her or me. I desperately wanted her in my arms and both of us in the restored bed. I thought I could lift the iron frame by reaching under it and then, by Erna holding it up, slide the slats in position. Naked as I was, I lay down on the cold, bare parquetry floor and reached in to lift the frame, mattresses and bedding in one go.At this. Suzi drove me back to the condo to get cleaned up, dressed and ready formy date. As she drove, she was on the phone making arrangements forJunjie to pick me up, and for the final confirmation of the party."Junjie is a very nice young man," Suzi said, hanging up the phone andlooking at me.I smiled, "yes, he seems to be." You know," Suzi went on, "that Junjie was at the dance club the nightwe first met you." He was?" I was quite surprised to hear this."He was," Suzi said. "In fact, it was his. Phred sat in the coffee room for a while, daydreaming about the first time they kissed. It was the night of the Christmas party, and he didn't seem to mind that they kissed and hugged, the sensation was electrifying. Up to that time in his life he had never kissed a white woman, although he had fantasized about it for a long time.When they pulled off the road he confessed, "You're a very sexy woman, Deana. I think about you all the time."He remembered she smiled at him, and they ended up having. “Do we have team members yet?” I asked.“Getting them in, slowly. Most of the platoon is still out on leave, and we lost a bunch of guys. That’s happening throughout the battalion,” said Bixley.Halston said, “There’s a lot of guys transferring out, going to schools, or being promoted out, that sort of thing. We’ve already lost Captain Holman. He went to Leavenworth on a Command and General Staff School program. When they laid the Stop-Loss on us before we deployed that screwed up a lot of.