I turned to look at the stable door and asked if it would be the same trouble he would get into if he was caught doing it with Elaine. He was stunned ...nd just gaped at me."You wouldn't tell?" He asked me in a very worried tone."Of course not" I said "I just might see my way to making you and Elaine pay though if you neglect me. I'm sure you could manage two girls and a horse couldn't you". He looked crestfallen at me "of course if you didn't want me to know about the horse then you should not. Yet this boyish creature across the table had killed in battle, and jumped from airplanes in the darkness of night. It was hard for Phillip to see this young man floating down from a dark sky with a loaded machine gun and death as his job. Philip shook his head in wonderment that this young man could be a veteran of not one but two wars. Though it had been short Jamie had did a lot so far in his life. Phillip stared at this ex-sergeant of the 82nd airborne division, but all he saw was the boy. Anna rolls her eyes and makes a production out of pulling her skirt down by about a centimetre. 'God, Lizzie, can you believe these boys?' she giggles. Liz smiles, but it's not a particularly genuine one. 'Okay, drinks!' Anna announces, clapping her hands and looking expectantly at Liz. 'Um, sure ... what would you guys all like?' says Liz, rising from her chair, walking over to where the fridge is. A beer, I tell her. Anna wants a rum and coke with ice. 'Three cubes, ' she specifies. 'Oh and a. ‘I don’t need to walk up do I?’ ‘Not a chance,’ I whispered back as I leaned forward and stood up with her in my arms. As I stood up she wrapped her legs around my waist and her arms around my neck. ‘Not like this,’ she whispered as I started away from the couch, and she dropped her legs, ‘ready?’ She swung her legs up and I caught them so I was carrying her bridal style. She rested her head on my shoulder as I walked carefully through the dark house, trying not to hit her feet off of anything,.