He was her master, she was nothing. All the time hewas in the room she couldn?t stop from trying to look at him, he was a magnetfor her eyes. And he d...dn?t even glance at her.God, yes, this was the man she had fantasisedabout by the stream. She had thought ? my man will have to conquer me, provethat he is my master. But now she knew ? he would just have to look in hereyes, and nod his head, and she would crawl over to him on her knees andprostrate herself in front of him.? *** With Mother. With the first beers gone, the second round had us both loosening up a bit. He decided to go out on the patio to smoke a cigarette, and I went to use the bathroom. When he returned, we both sat back down on the sofa, and he surprised me by asking if he could rub my shoulders. Of course I said yes, and could not resist his big hands massaging my shoulders and neck. “I just wanted to tell you that I think I like you, and hope that you like me too” he whispered, and before long we began. He tried many times to make his relationships with women work, but his addiction always ended up ruining things. Either David slept with someone the girl knew or a rumor got back to them exposing his little adventure. Afterwards it was always the same: The girl would end up breaking up with him, and he would be to blame.It was these things that were on his mind as he waited in the parking lot after graduation. Aaron would be along shortly and David put aside any thought that would interfere. Trish joined me after making sure that Tyler and the Medic understood how things were setup and what to do while we were gone.“There isn’t much we can do about the truck. We’ll just have to use it as it is. Maybe we can get the Army to fix it later,” she told me.We all had our things ready by lunch time, and Trish supervised the two Infantrymen and the one Medic as they prepared the food. I checked on Bob and Susie while they were working on lunch. I brushed down both of them and made sure they.