..”“It’s no use worrying,” Jaeger said with a shrug. “You won’t do yourself, nor anyone else any good by making yourself miserable.”“H...w can you be so ... aloof?” she asked, looking up at him with a flurry of purple feathers. “The world might end tomorrow for all we know, but you’re not worried at all?”“Sure I’m worried, but like I said, worrying doesn’t help anyone. Being a soldier is ninety percent waiting, ten percent fighting. If you let it, your worry and your apprehension will drive you. Then I had trouble figuring out what to wear, even though I kept telling myself that it didn’t matter. I wouldn’t be wearing it for long.Still, with all the rush I was ready long before Dad and Laura showed up. So I had half an hour more of nerve wracking anticipation before I heard their car pull into the driveway.Emily was down the stairs in a flash, opening the door before Dad and Laura got to it. I joined her as Dad and Laura came inside.Emily gave Dad a kiss, a rather chaste one on the. We talked about college, football and baseball and he was pleasantly surprised at my knowledge about sport.Alexis appeared on the wooden steps leading from the house, the misty moonlight, kissing her face, a gust of wind, rushed through her silky hair, which made Frank stopped and stare.She moved towards us, seated herself next to me on the wooden bench, half a foot separated us, she just stared into the dancing flames, which reflects crystal sparkles in her eyes.God, the purity of her beauty. ” I said in a low voice.“Come to my room then.” Thankfully we lived in a large stone house and our parents slept well away from our rooms, but I knew that I had to be as quiet as possible as I tip-toed across the landing. There was only a bedside light on when I crept into my sister’s room; the shadows making everything even more sexy and mysterious. “Take your fucking pyjamas off and stand over there.” Thelma giggled drunkenly. In front of our parents and at work Thelma was the.