His thin, black tie was cinched around his white collar. This meant trouble. He usually left it at half-mast, under his blue Pace warm-up jacket. Damn... the jacket was gone too. He had wearing that black suit jacket his Judith had given him for his last birthday. When Roger got nervous he sweated, and then the suit jackets always came off. Norma eased the door open, then stood up and moved toward the door. She descended the stairs slowly, trying no to start at the light pink slip Roger’s left. The tow rope was released as the disabled aircraft plunged toward the water. The beam duration was still set at only the quarter second but remained very effective.Sandy and I next tested each of the other fifteen shoulder fired weapons on stationary targets to make sure the weapons manually fired on command. I had Carl test fire two of the weapons and watched his eyes open wide in astonishment.We began wiping them down and putting them into cases when we finished. One of the officers came to. Michael, this is Emily."Michael stood up to shake her hand, a behavior he had acquired some years back."It's nice to finally meet you," he said with a smile."And you too." Turning slightly to Joe, she said "you didn't say he was cute."At that Michael felt a bit flush, and despite his six feet of height, at this moment he felt small next to her."Oh my god he's blushing!" Em said that with great excitement, her eyes beaming. "Hey, leave him alone," interjected Joe. "He doesn't need the full. It was totally against company policy to date a client and besides, what the hell would my dad think?! I already knew I was going though, there was no question about it. My Friday nights usually comprise of like one drink and then going home to geek up on Inheritance Tax and all that crap. Compare that to a date with Adam, and it really wasn’t a hard decision. ~ So Friday night finally rolled around and I had serious butterflies. I hadn’t been on a ‘proper’ date in like a year and the fact.