"Oh, I still refer tomy son as my son until he starts to transition. I do not want todisrespect his privacy."The pause before Adam gave his answer mad... him sound unsure of howconvincing his cover up was. John's answer made the liar know his rusewas still working. "Oh sorry, I didn't know."Now it was time for John to pause. He did not know if he should goforward with his plan to invite Adam to the 100th Floor, the executivedining area, for lunch. Adam's son not being out as a transgender. I know how we felt at our first party, but that was different. Apart from one couple, they were virtually all strangers, and we had no idea what we were in for. You know us all, and I know you will enjoy it with us, and we will all be good friends afterwards.” I said, “Intimate friends,” and we all laughed. We talked about college and they asked us how many other girls we knew were having sex with their boyfriends and stuff like that. Jan asked us about our periods and our contraception.. "Lt. Nichols looked around and gestured to a young girl walking by, "Tell Sergeant Massey that I need to see him at the platoon ops in 15 minutes please." Yes, Ma'am." And the girl sped away."Okay, MP's are not a problem. I should have thought of that long ago. Did you want to see the CO about Kat?" Yes, Ma'am. I want to try to adopt her." Damn, you just cost me 20 bucks, Sarge. I was sure that you wouldn't ask till next week, but Jameson said today or tomorrow. Did you warn him somehow?" What?. I looked up to see her standing naked in the doorway holding a lipstick and lipstick brush. “I’m Italian from Trieste not Greek from Lesbos.” With that, she turned back into the ensuite.After I picked my jaw up off the floor and plugged my eyes back into their sockets I called out, “Sorry”.“Okay,” She replied. She came to the door of the ensuite. She had made her face up very professionally, in a fifties/sixties style. She had a Pucci scarf around her hair and a pair of black and gold Chanel.