I smiled when she handed it to me, and I said, "What is it?"She said, "Open it and see, Mistress."I carefully unwrapped the present. When I opened the...box, I found a silver-white metal choker. It was about 2 inches wide, and incredibly light. It felt like it might be aluminum, but the finish was different than aluminum, and it was highly polished. At three points around the choker, it had small o-rings attached near the bottom. A tiny bell hung from one. It wasn't really my taste, but I told. ”We all gathered in the dining room where we ate dinner, sang to Jesse, then ate cake. He received his presents, which included a set of poker chips and cards from me, and Heroes of Might and Magic from Kara and Jessica, something he would be able to play on the Dell Pentium PC I had in my study for work, as it wasn’t available for MacOS.When Jesse and his moms went back to the coach house, Kara, Jessica and I put the little ones to bed and then watched a tape of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with. The curtain rippled quietly, a hand drew it back and a face appeared in the dim glow. It was Bob, my unit's sergeant. He was clearly a couple of sheets to the wind and still in uniform with his open collar khaki shirt unbuttoned. Surfer boy Bob! Blond, tanned, a mop of unruly beach boy hair that resented being tamed to mil-spec. His unbuttoned shirt exposed his smooth, hairless chest. Bob signaled quiet with his index finger pressed to his lips. He entered my cube and the curtain dropped closed. It was not yet three AM. She turned over, and on impulse, she reached out to the CD player and started the Canon in D. She had not played it in weeks – it always made her cry. No more. That night, she went to sleep again smiling, as if her Geoffie were holding her. And, again – perhaps he was. — The next day, a Saturday, Amy did not wait for Jeff to call her, she called him. It was already clear that in this romance, if romance it turned out to be, she would be taking the lead – another.