.."Tommi gave Ashley a reassuring smile. "No offense taken."Ashley looked down again. "It's just that ... I'll never find a guywho's interested in m...," she said sadly. "I'm not very pretty." Sheshook her head. "I'm kind of jealous of you, you know." Oh? Why?"Ashley looked at her for a moment, then resumed staring at the sidewalk. "You're _pretty_. Not like me. And you're better ... equipped ... toattract boys' attention."Tommi sighed. "You know, as a former guy, I can tell you that. Even though she didn’t havemuch on her chest, she looked fairly good-looking. Once shebecame crammed into the back of the train, she yelled in aforeign tongue, which I assumed was one of the eastern Europeanlanguages to get the attention of others who were in her party,but they were helplessly crammed as well in the train compartmentdesigned for about 50 people to stand, but now packed with nearlyfive hundred, if not more. She turned her head towards me andsaid something in her language that I. Ken was sitting at the Captain's table and spoke to them. He invited them to sit with him after they were served. Bebop was the last in the chow line. Pat shouted " Seconds for any one" ? Pat and Clancy served them selves and joined Ken, Jerry and Bebop with their ladies. Ken stood up and said "Jerry and ladies this is Pat Arnold, Chief cook and Clancy Parker second cook. "Bebop if you would, introduce your guests please."Bebop said "The lady with Jerry is Mary Ann Hardwick, and the one with me. None of them had the lack of life that I had, and none of them were searching like I was. “Hey there,” I heard the unfamiliar voice seemingly coming from nowhere and everywhere. “You look like a girl with nothing to do. What say you we go and have a little fun together?” I looked up into the mischievous brown eyes of the woman above me, roughly twenty eight, dressed in her sports gear, some cute little shorts that hugged her ass, showing just the edge of that gorgeous peach and the tank top.