She did come home on the Sunday before I had to head back to camp. We made love again but it wasn’t quite the fireworks of the last time, although i... was still very good. Sara did seem a bit distant. I headed off to camp and to find out where I was being sent. I was being sent to another army base for more intense training. Our squad was being sent to Afghanistan. We had more months of training and then we headed out on our assignments. My letters from Sara were fewer and fewer. Then one day I. What the hell was that about! I sure as hell didn’t know. I resigned myself to another night of being alone and lonely and desperate for a woman’s touch, a woman’s love. I needed those badly and I had no hope of getting any. Well, I had no hope of getting any from the woman I most wanted to get it from.Sammy and Henry’s words came back to me. Go find me another fish in the sea? Maybe, I guess I had to try. Living like I was twern’t no good, no good for anything or anybody. Yeah, I guess I had. In fact up until recently she was the only skinny girl I ever made it with. Maybe I just needed a break from dating fat freaks, or something, who knows.The oddest thing about Fletch was that she had a speech impediment that made it sound like she was drunk all the time. It took a little work to keep from laughing.After our third date I was wondering when to make my move on her when she beat me to the punch." (So) Tho tell me (Larry) Warry. When ah (are) you gonna take me to da Bush (so) tho. Why would he leave? Guilt for wanting his sister-in-law? So when you left the lounge, and Evan called out to you, your heart thumped with adrenaline. Despite that rush of adrenaline, you coolly teased him about the way he’d been looking at you. You didn’t tell him the way your body had reacted as you’d felt his eyes upon you. Instead, you coquettishly kissed his neck, teasing out his reaction, after he drew you close for an embrace. When his mouth met yours, and your tongues lashed against one.