"His voice trailed off as he looked into her eyes.With a sigh he continued, "We'd better get in our birds and stop these bastards."Giving her a quick ...iss, he turned and walked over to his bright blue single seat fighter, and climbed up the ladder. Looking over as his wife climbed into hers, he swung his legs into the cockpit, and started strapping himself in. He went through his checklists.Two Marines had been pressed into being ground crew. They ran through the hanger, pulling the ladders. We didn't let on to any of the girls that we'd be inviting each other's older daughter out when we met at Howard's on Saturday night.I noticed Fiona looking my way soon after we got there; she blushed when I smiled at her but before I could approach her individually, Shelley got me to one side and rewarded me again for taking her to the Prom."I see you have a bra on tonight at least." I can lose it if you want," she offered."No, I think that you'd best stay as you are." I couldn't believe that. I can't go anyway, because I'm a junior and so is my boyfriend." You have a boyfriend? Nobody told me." And that's the second reason why it won't be a problem. But we can talk about that later."We moved towards the house and my parents met me at the door. Sitting around the kitchen table eating our lunch, Mom slid the newspaper ad across the table towards me. "You're girlfriend has caused quite a stir in this town. She certainly is beautiful in that picture. How did all this happen?"Mom was. I looked around to see what kind of trouble I was in; I assumed quite a bit. What I found wasn't exactly like the aftermath of a firefight but close enough.The muscle was down on the ground. Sam had one while Stanly had the other. There were a number of small metal pieces lying next to them and I could tell it had once been a gun only because of my familiarity with them. It had been disassembled down to its constituent components and the barrel was bent. That had to be Sam's doing. It takes a.