.................................................When his dad remarried, the woman he married also had an older daughter; Ginny.Mark wasn't ready for ... 'half-sister' He was always shy, usually ducking out of open discussions, afraid to speak and get laughed at or embarrassed. But what he really wasn't prepared for was the 'underbelly' of the newly-formed family. Not what you see, but what you don't see. Ginny was 4 years older than Mark, with no intentions of moving out. It was cheap and. Reluctantly Iopened the door. "It's about time sissy," Sarah said with derision. "Feeling all prettyand clean now?" she teased."Screw you," I muttered. My response must have pissed her off. Shegrabbed my wrist and twisted it really hard. "Ah, fuck! That hurts!! Let go!" I screamed."Not until you apologize for talking back to me." OK, ok, I'm sorry!" "Who's sorry?" Me. I'm sorry!" Now, you know better than that. Who's sorry..." Sarah said with adevious little inflection, as she twisted even. The penalty for killing a soldier not in battle is death and tonight alone you've killed two of which one there were two witnesses" he said with his nostrils flaring from anger.She opened her mouth to say something but closed it again against better judgement. She sat back down and looked around the tent. "It's no use to plot escape. I have men surrounding this entire area. They'll kill you on sight if unaccompanied" he informed her and with that he left her alone with her thoughts. She tried. Elaine called several times to see how I was doing, but basicallywe never saw each other for two weeks. Bill called several times and wetalked for an hour each time.On Monday, two weeks later I was transferred to parcels. It was wherethey shipped out or packaged any item a customer bought and wanteddelivered. I even rode with the drivers to get a feel for how they didtheir job. I was in the back of the store when I discovered a wholeshelf of items that for one reason or another had been.