I wasn't going to be her pawn in this trumped up game.The doorbell rang. When I opened the door I saw two of the prettiestgirls I'd ever seen. One was...tall with gorgeous chesnut brown hair andcheekbones that made her look absolutely elegant. She had on a shortblue floral jam dress. The other girl was a bit shorter with red hairand freckles, very Irish looking. She had on a straw hat, a blushfloral sleeveless minidress and a pretty stone necklace.The taller girl spoke first. "Hello, you must be. Her dress was purple and not quite asfrilly as mine. Fred had taken some initiative and some bows in her hairtoo."You look cute..." Bella said to me.I groaned. "So do you..."I sat down in the playpen with a sigh as the stress of the last fewhours, the fun I'd had over the day, and everything else caught up withme in the form of extreme fatigue. Fred had turned the TV on just then tothe local news channel and I gasped at the lead story.'Our top news story today comes from the Looney World park.. He hadexperienced some fun and interesting things, yes, but certainly thereweren't enough appealing aspects about being female to make him want tostay this way. As soon as his debt was paid off, he was getting backinto his old Tyler Hillman body and taking the next rocket to Earthwithout a second thought.Still... Paul had a good point about the relationships he had with thegirls at the company, and how they wouldn't have been the same if hehadn't been "one of the gals", as he put it. And all. .. breaking up..."Then I hung up the damn phone.Flashback – Major M – Undisclosed baseWhat the hell! Damn, Sgt. Reynolds just hung up on me! I didn't believe for a moment he had cell phone problems. I called again and heard, 'The phone you have reached is not in service or is out of our service area.'Son of a bitch! I had a good mind to recall his ass back to America and then send his damn ass to Thule!My office phone rang, I answered and the Old Man yelled, "What the hell..."I interrupted,.