. ," Ingrid was saying when Kelley interrupted the housekeeper..."He's staying in my room. It's this way, Honey," Kelley said, pointing in the directi...n of a hallway.I suddenly felt the temperature in the kitchen. It was a combination of penetrating heat, with a cold draft. The source of the heat was a black, cast iron stove that stood five feet high and had to be three feet in diameter at the girth. The cold draft I felt was coming from Ingrid and Kelley."Isaac is opposed to your occupying the. Did I also want it to happen? My mind fought it just a bit, though not my body.He pointed to the pulsing bulge and said he had a stain that needed cleaning as well. I was uncharacteristically emboldened. I had wanted a moment like this to happen so much that I watched my right hand reach out and take the material and stroke an imaginary stain on top of his bulge. Immediately - two things happened - the expression on his face changed to one of unexpected pleasure and I felt my first ever surge. One stayed here while the other one guarded HellHole. We had decided that three Regiments was as large as we wanted to grow. We might grow larger in the size of our BattleMechs but the number wouldn't grow any more.As I have stated before we're over staffed in Techs/Astechs so we are larger than the basic 252 people per Regiment. A basic Regiment is 108 Mechs and 18 Fighters with a pilot for each Mech and Fighter and a Tech or Astech for each machine. Each of our Battalions has a Command Lance. So here I was, on the eve of my sixteenth birthday, an educational flop and already on the lover's scrap heap. Happy birthday!Tonight's party, given my current bout of the blues, was set as a small family affair. Just mum, dad, my brother and sister. Sort of a "pick Annie up and dust her off" party. Actually my birthday was tomorrow, but tonight was Saturday, and I certainly had nowhere better to go.John, my brother, decided to add to the numbers at the last minute. He rang from the air base he.