Any guy would notice her, and I did my best not to pay too much attention to her.Keeping a long story short, Laura and I got married after we graduate... from college. We made many trips to her hometown, and always stayed at her parent’s house. By that time, the only sister living in the house was Angie. We got to know each other really well and slowly built up a close relationship over the years. We shared more and more about our personal lives as time went on.At some point (several years. “Lydia! How are you? How was the rest of your summer?”She wore a purple sweater and dark jeans. I noticed a shiny necklace around her neck, and immediately saw that it was the one my brother gave her for Christmas a few years back. It was a single pearl, surrounded by a circle of diamonds. It reminded me of my own necklace that I was wearing under my white sweatshirt.“It was great!” I smiled back at her. I didn’t know what to say to her. Usually things come easily with her, but something was. Traci we could use for bear bait. I'd been planing to bury her in the woods anyway, though at the moment I didn't remember why.The girls started stumbling out around nine. I'd already been up three hours, run four miles, had a shower and cooked my breakfast—one of our neighbors caught more fish than he needed. I don't fish myself, but I was happy to take four big trout off his hands.Robbie was first. She made a smart-ass comment about me being too happy this early in the morning and stumbled. Get us below the thermals," Ji said calmly.The Hai Lungs dove for the depths of the ocean floor. Twisting as she went deeper into the depths. The torpedoes followed her as she dropped through the thermal layer in to the colder waters of the Pacific."Level the boat. Full speed ahead," Ji shouted."Leveling the boat Sir, and going to full speed," Ensign Han said from the ship's controls.Ji watched the clock as it counted down, and then said, "Drop the noise makers and take us to one hundred feet..