”I screamed, ‘YES!’ – silently.“Oh, ok. Mind if I stay out a bit longer?” I whisperedback.He looked uncomfortable,...after all, he knew his father,too.He glanced at his dad, then back at me, and mumbled,“I’ll be back then, I’ll just go inside for a littlewhile.”“Oh, ok. I’ll prolly come in soon, anyway.” I noddedquickly, wrinkled my nose, and pretended that I was justabout done, myself.Darryl got up, his white legs. Not any more.” When Christen made no comment, waiting for more, she elaborated.“It did at first. Right after. It was so big.”“What was?”“His cock.”“So you had sex. That’s a good thing, right?”Helen shook her head. “Not when it’s a dog.”Christen sat dumfounded. Helen gave another sigh, this one of relief. Finally she had told someone. The truth was out there. She could have told no one else but her BFF.“Please don’t tell anyone. I couldn’t stand it.”“I won’t, I promise. But you should. Can’t you. Both broadsides were to be on line before departure this point.The plan called for "Shriek" to move back to an observing point to report any change of enemy position. The enemy was stationary and had no emissions suggesting recent activity other than maintaining half shields. Scrutiny of "Shriek's" tapes gave an estimate of no movement in past two days which correlated with estimates of duration of the fluxes from the Navy Yard, the civilian yard and that area off to the north east. With. You might as well enjoy this because by tonight we will be facing their wrath for being so stupid as to get left behind. Mark my words!"As with other homecomings, the girls all but bowled me over as they swept up to hold and hug me, tears of joy streaming down their faces. If there had been any doubt about how these two felt about me, it would have been washed away when I saw their reaction to my safe return each time. I soaked up the raw emotion that was pouring from them and hugged them back,.