There were a few odd looks and silences for a few days. Val's friends were still trying to get her to ask someone to the Valentine's Day dance. They d...dn't care that it was still a month away. They thought that the sooner Val had picked someone the sooner the preparations could begin. Whatever that meant I had no idea. Tiffany wasn't as loud about it around me though.In our last class together for the day Val sat next to me for the first time since the dark room incident.Nervously she said,. But Rhykov's reputation enabled him to pull together the operations of the partisans, the VLV and OSNAZ into some sort of coherence. Moscow recognised this and STAVKA, General Headquarters, appointed him as overall commander in the Pripyat/Neman area with special authority over all groups.Supplies, weapons and ammunition were always a headache. The groups armed themselves with whatever they could, captured from the Germans, parachuted in, or from prewar stocks kept at secret locations by the. We moved our tea party to the sofa in the living room, and even though I was nodding my head to show I was listening, I hadn’t heard a word she’d said for the past five minutes. I was about to decide to ditch my whole plan when her story came to an abrupt end, giving me an opportunity to open my big mouth.“I bought some new outfits and I want to surprise Dave with one of them tonight,” I said too fast to come across as natural, “but I don’t know which one. If I try them on will you help me. A Harley!Sadly I don’t own a Harley but as luck would have it there were three of them parked in one space right next to my Accord. I spent a few minutes drooling over them. Big pipes, chrome, wild colors, controls, pedals, leather, they just screamed freedom and power. I can’t help myself. I throw one leg over the prettiest bike and straddle it - forgetting that I’m wearing a short skirt and fishnets with no panties.I put my hands on the handle bars, close my eyes and take a deep breath of.