" Jesus, Dave. How did you four get talked into this in the first place?" he asked."We hadn't a clue we were going in as support."The Marines let us p...actice gunnery Saturday morning ... Evasion Tactics Saturday afternoon, Saturday night ... they introduced us to 'figure eight' flying."They installed two lights, one in the nose and one in the tail, The lights shine on the water, when the two lights touch like the number 8, you're 50 feet off the water. If they make one round ball of light. "I tell you what Danni," she continued. Mandy began to softly stroke mythigh, her fingers sliding over the metal garter snap beneath mytrousers. As she did, I noticed a slight hesitation and a momentaryglance down, but other than that, she gave no reaction. She had to havefelt the clip though. Didn't she? Maybe not. She continued speaking asthough unfazed, "Why don't you and I go shopping together this weekend?We can look for a ring, and maybe something else special that you can buyfor. She walked up to us. Her face flushing and hugging herself with her arms."Hi John." Hi Randi. What's up?" I heard what you did for Karen." Her expression became stern. "Don't take this wrong. I still don't like you ... You did a nice thing helping her, and as much shit as I give you it's only fair to tell you the good as well."Damn, to say this is shocking is an understatement. Randi Wheeler is being nice to me. I wanted to cry. Instead I took a breath and looked into her eyes. I could see the. “Jeff Martin is on the phone and he wants to talk to you,”’ said Lisa.Picking up the phone Doug said, “Hi Jeff, how are things going?”“Things are going fine with me, how about you?”“Business was slow going when we first started doing this loan business but recently the number of applications we are receiving for loans has picked up. I hope I am not loaning out too much in the way of loans.”“No, you aren’t. Amy tells me the initial funds we gave to start the corporation have grown considerably.