“She’s all right, Jake,” Frank said, quietly for probably the fiftieth time. “I saw her drive away. She’s probably up at the cabin, recoveri...g from her own wounds. She’s been on her own for a long time. She knows how to take care of herself.”Frank didn’t suspect that, for most of Béla’s long life, she had searched out other people to take care of her, precisely because she wasn’t good at doing it herself. What she was good at, on her own, was getting into the worst kinds of trouble. He was. ”“Find *them*. They found me mate. But yeah, I’m damnedlucky.”The four on the makeshift dance floor continued to movetogether slowly, even though the music had changed andspeeded up again. Phil passed his three friend who werestill sat down a can of beer, and cracked one openhimself.“Hey ‘Liss,” he called to her. “Why don’t you show Joeywhat you do best.”Lisa broke off the kiss and raised an eyebrow. Herbright blue eyes sparkled at the. Getting someone to help me that was familiar with recruiting had been a great idea from his point of view. He chuckled when I told him what I was looking for in an enlistment contract. He wished me luck in trying to get what I wanted, and as I left, Bob told me he’d inform Mom that the contract was OK to sign.Making it to work a bit earlier than normal, Mr. Pope allowed me to give CSM Okorie a call from his office before I clocked in. It seemed that I had an appointment on the 5th of July to. After dancing I’m going to take you to a different kind of dance . It is actually somewhat of a new environment for me as well so we’ll both learn from it. Then we’ll return here, I’ve got a room for tonight.” He paused letting the plan sink in. I must have been beaming. “Tonight you will learn things about me and yourself as well. Tomorrow morning a friend of mine is going to take us sailing on the lake. Sound like fun?” I’m sure that I looked like a total dork sitting there, my mouth agape at.