Her lips were still stained with the red lipstick from the cosmetic counter and left a bit of color on the straw. "What?" What?" he whispered back."Yo...'re staring at me." Her lips twitched into a smile that she quickly suppressed."Sorry," he said and tore his eyes away from her. He forced his brain into gear to steer the conversation away from his illicit impulses. "School starts in four weeks. We'll have to get you registered soon." I've never gone to school up here." Her voice had lost its. The drawdowns of the American regular army forces in the years prior to World War Two in the 1930s had weakened their senior noncommissioned officer ranks to a skeleton crew of First World War survivors that were stretched too thin to compete with the highly trained German Wehrmacht. The Army was not flexible enough to produce the killing machines of Marine Corps raw recruits all trained under the harshest of environments and filled with the motivation to destroy a hated Asian enemy that had. I had a math test and I got a ninety five on it.”“That is great.” Looking at her daughter, Kari could tell Kathy had something else on her mind. “You look like you have something on your mind. What’s wrong, sweetie?”Kathy got some milk out of the refrigerator and sat back down. “Nothing’s wrong, but I do have something I would like to ask you.”“Go ahead.”“Mom, have you ever shaved your pus ... pubic hair?”“I have trimmed and groomed my pussy hair into a landing strip, but I have never gone. But I’ve worked out a wonderful way of living my life. I’m looking forward to your being part of it.” His fingers dented her yielding flesh as he pulled her closer, twirled her to the finish of the music and gave her a passionate, open-mouth kiss.Since coming back to life after his wife’s passing Elliot’s female companionship had become more varied and more complete than anything he had ever dreamed of. The beauty of the whole thing was that each woman related to him differently. Agatha Wilcox.