I resigned and went to the logcom office and pulled up the updated surplus ship list. I grinned at master chief Denny when I saw the Lady Merced on th... list. I entered the pension letter and my service number. With the highest military medal awarded that was all I needed. The ship was worth billions of credits and I got her for a few thousand and a promise for recall.I watched the processing and then accepted the command wand. I had one day to move the ship out of the yard. I made calls and. Just as Ron was storming off, I heard a girl crying. I looked up and saw Fiona with a tear-stained face and as my eyes met hers she broke down into another series of sobs. I jumped from my chair and wrapped her up in a friendly hug.I drew back after her crying abated slightly, looked her in the eyes again and asked, "Fiona, what's wrong hun?" Curtis! Curtis ... he turned me down!"Turned you down?" Well ... I was tired of waiting for him to ask me out so I finally got up the courage to ask HIM. He’d had it with his supposed friends and their perpetual immaturity. Either he needed to find some new ones or break with her insistence that he spend at least one night a week ‘with the guys’. Most nights he sat at home on his computer, watching TV or some similarly antisocial behavior. He understood the club’s rule that boyfriends (and girlfriends for some) were permitted only a single night every week as patrons. They even tried to encourage this attendance on amateur night, the night their. His face was darker than usual, with dark circles under his eyes. He had some pimples on his face, and his lips were very dry.His body looked smaller than what I remembered in my memories, and he was fatter, with a huge belly. He was wearing a white tank top showing his fat arms, and on his chest, he had a large tuft of hair.It took me a while to realize it was him, but since he was sitting behind Dana, and the face looked more or less the same, I ended up realizing it.Leon has a crush on Dana,.