The choppers came in just after 1300 hrs. It really felt strange not being on the radio to bring them in. Just standing there while someone else did m... job was nerve wracking, but I was on my way out and that was the way it had to be.We got Sophie's and our stuff off of the 5/4 when we reached the LZ in the saddle with the help of the local troops. The arriving team would need both vehicles to move their things up to the camp. It would be crowded for a while with two teams living there.After. I imagined she'd fill out in a year or too, probably grow taller as well. As pretty as she was, the girl might even grow up to be beautiful, but that wasn't a thought meant to comfort my ego."Set your clothes over there. You don't gotta be told everything, just do it," I said. "And you can look at me too." I just ... I don't want to make you mad." She cleared her throat and I blinked at her. "That nigger Tom Henry, he said you got real mad at him for no reason. He figured you were gonna whip. "That Doug Puma is kind of cute, don't you think?" Dougie?" I asked, knowing instantly whom she was referring to. "Sure he's cute. He's a football player." He was flirting with me a lot tonight," she told me.I snorted. "I'd stay away from Dougie if I were you. He's only interested in getting you naked and fucking you." He is?" she asked, obviously not sure how to feel about that. That she was a virgin was something I knew and that she thought herself unworthy of most guys was something I'd. “That was a nice way to...” Andy started to say before a look from his dad cut Andy off in mid-sentence.“You must want to join your brother in forking over a little dough to buy our coffees, huh, Andrew Alan?” Mrs. Lunby bitingly asked.“No, Ma’am,” Andy softly said as he held the door for Lynette and me, as well as his parents.“Why don’t you snag those tables for us, Mike, Lynette,” Reverend Lunby said as he pointed to the two vacant tables along the back wall.“What would you like?” Mrs. Lunby.