I was beginning to wonder if he liked girls in general and me in particular. When we stopped at the apartment I shared with my mother, he took me in ...is arms and said, "I think its time I collected on that Popeye." Without waiting for an answer, he gave me the tenderest and sensuous kiss I had ever felt! I returned the kiss with everything I had ever learned. I better explain about sharing an apartment with my Mother. I was going to college on a scholarship when Dad got transferred to. She heard things on the news and would often ask him about it, but he always told her that was not going on where he was at. He didn't want her worrying herself sick over him.Tommy did two tours over in the war-torn Iraq. It was after his second tour that he had called Becky telling her he was coming home. And because he had fulfilled his "hitch" in the service, he would be coming home to stay this time.Becky was at the base when Tommy's military plane came in. She waited there with her family. "If it please your Highness, I need no reward for my service.The Queen shook her head and said with a smile, "it would not be properfor me to send someone of lesser estate. I will inform the Princess thatthe Countess Marylyne will call on her at seven this evening and youshall report back to me tomorrow morning. You have my leave."Her sincere protest having been dismissed, Lady, now Countess, Marlyne,knew better than to persist. She curtseyed once more, backed to the doorand opened it. The. When her parents asked what she wanted for her 18th birthday she told them she wanted to go a real school and be allowed to make real friends. In what may have been her first act of real defiance, she wouldn't accept no as an answer. Years of seclusion left her with a hunger for the outside world and although her parents were stubborn, they could see the seriousness in her eyes when she threatened to move out on her own.The nightmare didn't end there for her parents, as the only school with.