He caught it with one hand and threw it completely awaybefore it went off." He sounded very impressed."You don't think of Skyla as a she?" A pen had a...peared out of nowhere,and Kylie made a small notation on one of the pages before her."She? Skyla? Oh, yeah, sorry; I meant she." And you called her, Stinky?" Skyla had gone without a change of clothes and any freshening up forseveral days before our first meeting," I explained. Kylie smiled."Do you ever throw firecrackers at your other sisters?". The Captain winked at them from the ballroom door. Dave could feel his face redden further, and then he remembered that he was due to see her in the morning and he groaned inwardly. She surely knew what was happening now. — Dave knocked on the door of the Captains office and went in when called. He saluted, and then handed her the envelope he had been carrying. ‘What’s this Dave?’ She asked, turning it over in her hands without opening it. ‘My resignation ma’am, after my behaviour over the past. I turned back to look at Greg. His face was tired and drawn under the tan. His light brown hair was as unruly as usual with the tuft at the back sticking up. His smile made me feel warm inside. Life couldn’t be too bad if Greg was beside me. His hand stroked mine. I curled my fingers around his. He hadn’t noticed the nurse’s attractions. He had been looking at me all the time. “Don’t try to talk, Jan.” I couldn’t. There was too much in my mouth. The door swung open as the nurse returned with a. As it turned out I arrived back at the house around 8 PM, to find that the folks had gone to visit a sick friend, and that Laura was the only one home at the time. She was in the bathroom when I came in the back door. Our house was one of the older homes that was built when there wasn't any indoor plumbing, so when they did install the bathroom they put everything in a room off the kitchen. The upper floor didn't have any bathroom and if you had to piss in the middle of the night you had to.