I knew in the marines, when somebody's family showed up the gunnies always found a way to give you extra duty to make sure there was little time toget...er. I had seen that done many times. I didn't want to see that happen here"The appropriate military response is that there is no way to guarantee that he will not be on assignment by the time you arrive. He is there now, according to the logs, and I see no training scheduled for the next 7 days," he said."Make sure they and you stay in approved. ”“Uh ... that would be me, Dad,” I admitted, to the excited eyes of my sister and the evil eye of my mother.“My goodness, the way you sound about it, I thought it might be a real boyfriend and not just your brother doing his good deed of the year.”“Actually,” I said, “She was my first choice. I’ve always thought that I needed to treat my pretty sister nicer than I have been.”“Is there a lunar eclipse tonight? Is this our son, Mona?”“I’ve wondered that myself honey,” she said to dad, but still. This continued for some more days and finally, we decided to meet. But before our meeting she categorically made it clear that things between us will stay between us. She’s in a serious relationship with someone else. Rajshree obviously was too hot to be single. So I was not shocked to learn that.Her confession only encouraged me to reveal my relationship status too. We then started talking about what will we do. Since we were both getting regular sex from our partners, we decided to do. .." Shaking her head, she added. "Finally, I drove back out here. You were in there for 13 hours, you know." Long time," I said.She nodded. "Long for me. You got to sleep through it."I yawned. "Not much of a sleep. So who's your friend?"She looked down at the bear in her lap, and made a face. "Oh, it was waiting here when I got back." She grabbed an envelope. "It came with this." She pulled out a card from an envelope she'd had sitting near her. "Who's Elise?" What? Let me see that." She handed.