He took his time going through the stack. After all, it was his time.Using the knuckle of his forefinger, he tapped the top drawing, "You have more? L...ke this, there are others?"Alex nodded and picked up the large artist case she had placed by her chair, put it on her lap, and began to pull the zipper along one edge."Here," Cerigo commanded, slapping the top of his desk. Startled, Alex lifted the large, flat leather case to the top of his desk and caught her breath when he took it from her. (Auth. Note: Rear Echelon Mother Fucker) "You weren't in the rear with the gear."He laughed. "Your dad told you about those things?"I laughed. I remember good poetry. "He had other terms. Said that was something that bothered him after he made major and couldn't justify going out on operations." That would be like taking all the music courses and never getting a chance to pick up an instrument." Sort of, I guess," I said. "But people don't assault the flute-player." He grabbed my butt and. The others would ride in either Karin and Kristian’s Volvo sedan or Lars’ Volvo wagon. It was nearly two hours later when we were finally settled into two large adjoining suites in the hotel.“Pia and Marta are here with Pia’s boyfriend. Mikael, Katt, and Kristina will be in Stockholm in an hour, and Tina, Nils, and Anna will be here late this afternoon,” Karin said.“And there’s a special visitor,” Kristian said. “Someone you met in London.”“Lena is here?”“Yes. She really wanted to meet your. " I grew my nails long and was able to keep them polished for achange.At the end of the summer I registered for my senior year as a girl -and of course I did have to have my transcripts sent over but my motherhad already prearranged with the woman in the office to have any genderreferences removed. The woman was very sweet anyway, but I suspect abribe had been involved.So I started classes, and right from the beginning things were nowdifferent - the girls treated me differently, some were of.