"I'm sorry; I don't want my troubles to be a bother to you but after this morning I just couldn't help myself. I feel like a widow with a living husba...d. He's there at the home and I'm here all alone. Usually I do better than this but sometimes I miss the presence of another person. The worst times are nights like tonight, especially after scenes like I saw today. I'll never have him back again and that's hard to accept when I can see a healthy body without a mind."Millie shifted her position. "What's up," I said."Hey, just wanted to let you know Marie asked me to come to the party too," Angie said, and I was a little surprised she had since Angie is the baby of the family and as the oldest Marie treats her that way a lot, so do I. But it made sense too, if Marie was trying to surround herself with people to keep the subject from turning to what she and I did at the Balls Out Party last year. Besides, she was 18 and a Senior in high school by then, just like I was when Marie invited. She listened to the empty house, bracing for her Daddy’s footsteps to come down the hall, but none came.She inched towards her bed, looking at the clothes carefully arranged across her sheets. The outfit was laid out as she was to wear it; a dress with a bra and panties on top and stockings and a pair of shoes at the base of the bed. She ran her hands over the clothes imagining how they would look on her.Her hand touched the spaghetti straps of the red silk dress, running down the plunging V. I watched ahead as I finally came out and closed with the spaceport.I rolled and turned towards a battleship and pointed the flyer towards it. I hit the auto pilot, armed the warhead and hit the emergency ejection. The seat was wrapped in a grav shield before it exploded out the side of the flyer. I dropped towards the ground as the flyer continued with soldiers firing at it.It slammed into the side of the ship and exploded but that was just the flyer. The first stage of the warhead exploded.