Hooking up with your roommate is never really a good idea... Not that hooking up with someone across the base is all that much better. I just want to...be hooking up with someone other than my vibrator.Deployment somewhere this remote is excruciating for me. I really miss the city. Any city, anywhere would be better than this. I also miss not being called 'sir'. I have to say that this "temporary" assignment is starting to feel semi-permanent already. The loneliness is almost unbearable. He is a bit of a horny old goat. Every once in a while, I need to tap him in the nuts to bring him back in line. Right my dear loving husband?”He covered up his jewels and began to laugh out loud and nodding very fast.“If you need a band for the reception, I know a guy.”I wiggled my eyebrows and he laughed as we shook hands, before looking my big girl in the eyes.“Hey, I have been so busy lately, I am sorry, but Dara, has a date been set? Your moms probably know, but I’m in the dark.”I must. Sometimes I feel like I’m thirteen again. I angled her towards the door, doing up my bathrobe. “Andy likes it” is all I could find to say. “Here you are mum. I’ll phone you”. I closed the door on her.I put all the damp clothes from around the house in the washer, and brought in the clothes off the decking where we’d got naked last night. I put my wet ballet pumps in the bin, and Andy’s soaking trainers outside the door. I got crosser and crosser. The open bra, now – obviously - simply the best. "Her father's look of defeat and shame as he silently stood up and left the room. She began to cry, to beg him to come back. The sharp slap across her mouth as she was told to shut up. Her mother literally dragging her to the bus stop, begging was useless, it only brought more punishment. Mother was good at meting out punishment, physical and mental.Her eyes welled with tears, her head tipped to the side as she willed the vision to go away. It left, fading into the background only to be.