He had a 3-day beard and a crazy scar on his left cheek. Never imagined he would be the life of the party...Cristina showed up...well, like Cristina. ...Her intoxicating perfume preceded her for... I would say, a block away. She wore black patent pumps, a nice (expensive looking) black silk mini dress and enough gold bracelets and chains for the entire group. She looked very tan and very smooth, her legs were long and nicely shaped. And she was not wearing breast forms! This girl had some real. Neil had promised her a lovely site for a picnic and her stomach was rumbling, but she smiled at him and followed him."This is the New Forest," he told her as they went through a few trees and Paula scoffed."We're not far enough away from Bournemouth to be New Forest. We need to be Broke-en-hurd."Neil chortled. "Brockenhurst," he corrected her. "But this is the edge of the New Forest." There aren't enough trees for it to be a forest," Paula replied, and Neil sighed."Right, we might as well go. There was more good news, I was promoted to lance corporal which meant more money. Of course there was also bad news, I was reassigned to a new unit forming in the east at a port. They were doing raids in smaller ports and fishing villages.I was also told I had been put in for the Queen's Star. Not for going after the other tanks but for taking out the first one while we were under fire. I was not looking forward to finding a hover truck to drive us to the next base but the company sergeant. Within five minutes of leaving the practice field, my phone blew up. Alyssa was texting me every five seconds. “Where are you?” “What were you doing here?” “Why weren’t you at practice?” “It’s not what you think” “Let me explain” ... I ignored them for a while. Then I just sent back a quick message saying “at the gym, can’t talk right now” She knows we are not allowed to have our phones with us while practicing at the gym, so I’d sent her that text lots of time before. After all, it was her.