A week later he was talking to himself as he paced in front of my cell—deciding whether or not to kill me—as our tanks and troops advanced on thei... position. Finally, he just opened the cell door, called me out and handed me his pistol. “We are alone here. My comrades have fled. I surrender to you. Now you must follow rules of Geneva Convention.”I ejected the clip, finding it fully loaded. Returning it to the Polish-made Makarov 9 mm pistol I racked the slide, slid the safety off and. I didn't tell her that.The meal we were making was just about finished, so I set the table adding a pair of candles, lighting them. I told her to sit down, and I brought our finished meal to the table. I went back for glasses and a bottle of half-finished Merlot.I sat and poured us a glass."Since when did you become a wine drinker?" she said not sounding as derisive as she could have."When I realized I had a beautiful woman in my life. That's why I got out the candles." Well, it's OK ... you. "I'm not surprised. But that midnight visit to Bikini Beach was onlythe beginning. We encountered Grandmother just after climbing out. I'monly going to tell what I remember, but as I discovered at the end ofthe semester, my memories might well have been false. I remember oneboy became a girl, but the way they all talked later at the end of thesemester, they might all have become girls. Not only that, the othergirl who went with us might have been a boy." And for all you know, you might. Anyway mom glared at me and in way of explanation she said that Shellie just found out that her husband was cheating on her. The way that mom said that really kind of set me off. It was almost like she was accusing me of doing something wrong because I was a guy and Shellies husband was a guy and there for all guys are like that, at least that's the impression that I got. Her attitude and the way she brought me into their conversation is what gave me the go ahead to say what I did. Rather.