She would actually be promoted to W-2immediately upon graduating the course because of that. While theywould have liked to get to know each other on ... girl's night trip totown, regulations stated that they were restricted to base until theyhad reached phase 2. However, they were allowed to socialize on base.They all had the privileges of the officer's club, to which uniformswere required after 8, so they all climbed into class B uniforms withslacks (thank God, Jamie thought, though she did. ‘I’m so sorry!’ Kris exclaimed. ‘Is it bleeding?’ Matt checked his hand. ‘No, it isn’t.’ ‘Well then,’ Kris said putting her arms around him and pulling him close. ‘I promise I won’t say I’m fat if you promise me one thing.’ ‘What’s that?’ he asked. ‘If I do and I eat too much, I want you to promise you will give me a vigorous workout session so I can burn off the calories. Promise?’ He threw his hands up. ‘You bet!’ ‘It was the greatest!’ Kelly said excitedly to Kris. ‘I had a real great time. Then he felt something soft and giving brush up against his arm, jostling his glass of wine as the air around him was once again filled with the heady fragrance of Lilacs. "Oops!" he heard his mother mumble, as another flash of light filled the room and Mark found their faces only inches apart. Staring into each other's eyes for that brief instant, neither of them moved. But this flash of lightning seemed to flicker on forever as they stood transfixed, frozen in time, the air around them. "Well, I can get from point A to point B in the water if I have to, but I'm a distance runner and would rather get my exercise on the road. Helen and several of my wives can literally lie in the water on their backs and read a book. I'm told that everyone can float, but that doesn't seem to apply to me. I sink like a rock. If I lie on my back and relax, shortly I'm on the bottom of the pool," he said, laughing. As usual, Jeff had minimized anything that he could do, and was well aware that.