Reminds me of our Mt. Baker days. She sure got old fast.” He lifted a photo of the ammunition ship from a shelf and blew off the dust. “AE34, the ....S.S. Mt. Baker” he said proudly. “Remember the time Chuck took us on that training mission to Malaga”? “Yeah” said Jack. “What was her name Juanita or something”? “No man, it was Myrta, Remember? Said she was an honest to goodness princess.” “What? Asked Miri. “Yeah she was married to some Puerto Rican guy who had some ancient island royal blood.. "Really?" Sure, the least I can do for keeping me company Monday is to save you from the boredom. What time Saturday?" Well it starts at eight. I'd have to pick you up at seven-thirty, is that alright?" It's fine Riley. Hey, why don't you come to our dance on Friday? We won't actually get to dance, but we could talk between sets and maybe before and after. It's not going to be like River Street, but we did promise we'd do a few dances at our own school this year when we were free." You don't. . Us two used to what you may call knock about together just as buddies get pissed as what ever just for fun. We didn't do anything else well then anyway we used to see who could pull first just for a laugh she always won of course but what the heck. I f neither of us did we would go home either together her place or mine and sleep together and I mean sleep nothing else we would just cuddle up and kiss and go asleep. The thing was that neither of us really knew at the time is that we loved each. I understand. I barely moved off the couch the whole week.” He let me go and we looked at each other. “One day at a time.”“One day at a time,” he answered me and then nodded at Joe, Bethany, and Mark. “Hey.”“Guys, this is Simon. He was Sam’s best friend,” I said as I turned. Simon kept his hand on my shoulder. Mark glanced at it and frowned for a second.“Simon, this is my brother, Joe, and his best friend Mark. And this is my friend Bethany.” She blinked when I didn’t call her my best friend,.