Actually that wasn't bad advice since there was a jam session happening that night at a club downtown. I picked Billy up at the Military Air Terminal ...nd called Beth to ask her if she wanted to join us. I figured in his dress greens with bloused trousers in jump boots, shaved head and polite manners, Billy would look trustworthy enough for one of my friends to take home for the weekend.Unfortunately, I had forgotten the old joke that went "What do you call a musician without a girlfriend?. Almost a week passed by before the two women saw each other again. Elsa had been working the late shifts so the curfew meant they could not be together.Saturday morning and Erika awoke to an urgent knocking at her door."Who is there?" she called."It's me, Elsa," came the reply.She quickly opened the door and let her friend inside."What are you doing here so early? It is only seven o'clock." I'm sorry," Elsa said, "but I had to see you before you went to the shop. I risked telling one of the. "Oh," was all she said in reply. Anthony lay there staring at the ceiling until he slowly began to drift off to sleep. "Anthony," Linda called. "Hmmm," he answered sleepily. "Please come get in the bed," she said softly. With that his eyes shot open and he sat up staring at her even though he couldn't make out her features in the dark. "I want to be clear about this. Are you asking me to make love to you," he asked. "No but I can't sleep in this strange bed, alone, with you on the couch only a. If I can do that to someone I love, I could end up killing someone just because they upset me..."Clare grabbed my arm and crushed her head against my shoulder. "You're not the sort to go killing people," she said."I am and I have" I said"Yeah on the battlefield with a gun." she said"On and off the battlefield, with guns knives and even my bare hands. Do you know what? my country said I was a good guy and gave me medals for it." I said.I saw her expression change when I mentioned bare hands..