”“I guess.”He would have said more, but the waitress delivered their dinners. The food looked like regular diner fare. They each dug in and star...ed eating. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t bad, either. They decided they could take eating here frequently.The discussion had bothered Tim although he knew how Benny was. It was just hard to hear him state it in such blunt terms. Tim wanted a lot more out of a relation with a woman than that. He wanted it all – love, companionship, and romance. Of. That was strange. The rest of the lights were out in our two story house, including my brother's room on the second floor where I would have expected to be holed up playing his X-Box. Curious, I went to investigate.Peeking through the sliding door window I saw something that I could never, and would never, forget. Little Mariko, the thirteen year old girl next door, was on her back on the very sofa I'd jerked off on about a million times while watching porn. She was wearing a tight little pink. The sun was coming in the wrong window and my bed felt different. Opening my eyes, I looked around the hotel room. Marie was sitting on her bed reading some papers dressed once again in that same brown tweed suit. It was then that the day before came back to me and I choked back a sob. Marie must have heard me because she looked up at me and smiled. ‘Well good morning. Are you hungry?’ I thought about that for a minute until my stomach gave a loud rumble. I had never eaten the rest of my. Michael didn't want to send them on garrison duty to Thule until they'd had a chance for some more seasoning, and preferably a pregnancy or two. "Some of you have even seen combat. That should be enough to impress the socks off some of the men. Who knows, they may even listen to you. Any who prove unwilling to listen to 'mere kids' will be transferred out and may find themselves regretting that attitude."He quickly wrapped up the meeting. "Gentlemen, one final thing." He then read out the names.