Stephanie replied that she had. Then I smiled.Next Josie bitched out her daughter Stephanie for leaving her all along with grandpa. Old Mr. Stevens co...ld be a bastard. I would never go in his yard to get my balls back. I wouldn’t even knock on his door at Halloween either.Apparently Josie, Stephanie, and the kid had come for a long visit and had thought about staying here in America but not with him. They had only arrived yesterday and already had enough. Stephanie confessed that she had shoved. She was coming out of her shell more and more. David had advanced at this point to Cadet Ensign (C/ENS) and it looked like he would, very likely, make Cadet Lieutenant (C/LT) before the end of their Junior year.School was pretty much a known quantity, for them. They studied, did their required work, but always turned in college level papers; something they got Mona into, as well. They went out on dates, which became easier when David reached his seventeenth birthday, which meant that it was. “Those girls from last night tried to corner me in the parking lot,” she told him. “I threatened to kick their asses if they bothered you. I hope that was all right.”Brock laughed out loud.“Oh, it’s all right,” he said. “But I don’t think it scared them too much. In fact I think one or both of them might be asleep in your bed right now.”He filled Melanie in on his late night visitors.“I should have called you,” he said. “But I didn’t want to take the chance of waking you. It was almost 3 am. Megan sat in the front of Jake’s large BMW, while Darren sat with Sam in the back.The conversation in the front seats was flirtatious and risqué, and this prompted Darren to put his arm round Sam and pull her to him. It was a surprise when she pushed his arm away and sat up straight.Neither said anything, listening to the banter in the front of the car. They arrived at Megan and Sam’s block, Megan invited Jake in, and Darren took this as a general invitation and went with them into the.