Alex was cooking when she got up later. He heard her quiet footsteps and smiled. If she was feeling better she would certainly try to get rid of him. ...e had no idea why but fighting with her always made him hard."What are you doing?", she said finally."What does it look like?", he shot back."It looks like you're cooking. But that can't be right because the powerful Alexander Devlin would never cook. You could ruin your manicure, you know", she mocked.Alex laughed at that. "Your omelet is ready. She was taking a look at the surrounding. I was waiting for her to look at me, make eye contact, and smile.Suddenly, she looked at me and now. ‘Ye! she is going to smile now.’ I just wanted that look but OMG she didn’t. She just made an eye contact for a few seconds and cut it away without smiling. ‘What happened to her?’ I was shocked because it had never happened, she didn’t smile ‘why?’Now I was out of my mind and spent my whole trekking session just thinking about her. I tried to catch her. My wife said he was very Tom Selleck looking (big moustache, open shirt, hairy chest, etc). Very different from the boys that she was friendly with. They chatted and flirted at the bar one evening as he was mixing drinks. My wifes friends told her “He likes you!”. She told him all about her classes and he told her that he had grown up on the Western Slope of Colorado and that his family had all been coal miners. He was like “Fuck that shit!” and had enrolled in college, gone for one year. Fortunatley I was assigned to follow a bunch of fleeing rebs that went west towards Waynesboro, as the command wanted to make sure they went south soon, and not north. Being relatively fresh, with full rations, ammo, and water, made my job easier, as we crossed Waynesboro, johnny reb swung south through Dogstown, Pa., we kept a safe distance between the reb rear guard and ourselves, no one wanting a fight. But war is messy, as stupid as it seems, we crossed another Union picket, everyone.