"Shhh," a man said as Jacquie looked up into his face. Jacquie found it very uncomfortable to find a strange man standing so close to her. As she lowe...ed her book the man took a step closer. Jacquie's breasts were almost touching the man's chest."Don't say a word," he said softly as he reached up and placed his hand over hers on the overhead handhold."Wh..." Shhh," the man said again, Jacquie felt a sharp point pressing against her belly, "be quite and you won't be hurt." Jacquie looked down. ” Jenny couldn’t understand why Kate was looking a little annoyed. “Why would I have said anything about Amy, we had other things to discuss last night.”“Jenny, Sally phoned me this morning and told me that you were desperate for a keyboard player and could I help. Why couldn’t you have asked me?”“Oh god I’m sorry Kate. Sally shouldn’t have done that. I told them I couldn’t ask you and she should have left it at that.” Jenny could see the hurt she had been trying to avoid in Kate’s eyes.“Why. "Oh my, please excuse me" Ruth sensed how nervous the young boy was, so she played it off as a joke. "It's alright sweetie, that's the most attention the girl had in a while."Matthew breathed a sigh of relief. Glad that she didn't think that he was trying to cop a feel. Ruth had Matthew bring her bags of groceries into the kitchen, then she offered him a drink of lemonade. "Let's get these bags into the kitchen and get you an ice cold glass of lemonade. You must be tired after lugging my heavy. He was in a critical specialty, they said. He asked why he hadn’t been assigned to that critical specialty in over three years? They didn’t really have an answer for that. They also had absolutely nothing to offer him to entice him to stay in. He was only twenty-eight. Four years plus after the end of the war the civilian job market was booming. He’d had to meet with some three star to tell him why he was leaving. He told him the truth to include the sorry state of the current, ‘All Volunteer’.