Mom and Dad will need at least one more person in the kitchen and they're promoting me to Dinning Room Manager. I need a new server and a part time ba...rtender for parties." Congratulations on your promotion. How does Loretta feel about it?" She was actually very happy for me. I think she likes the idea that when she leaves at the end of her shift, her job is over. I'm discovering that a manager's job doesn't end, just because you want to go home. I never knew how much Grandmother did after I. Who would be calling me at this hour? I looked at theclock. It read Five AM. I pick up the receiver and answer with a half asleeptone in my voice.?Hello???Slave I want you prepared for my return. Do I make myselfclear?? ?Yes Master.? I reply. Now fully awake.?Good.? He says and hangs up. I could not have gone back to sleep if I wanted to. The tonein Master?s voice had been very harsh. He did not sound happy at all. Iwondered if I had angered him somehow. But he had been away for two weeksTaking. The army is one of the last bastions of the Class System, especially in the more senior ranks. Harry Ledbetter was also in the running for promotion to Brigadier, and would have been odds on favourite to clinch the position had I not thrown a few fucks into him with my divorce petition naming him as co-respondent, and I was glad to put a spoke in his career wheel."You have been invited to The Rifles Sergeants' Mess this evening," Barney said, "Given the choice I would much prefer to be joining. They'd let him sit with her in the living room and watch TV. They let them hold hands and would allow Lucas to put his arm around her, but NO KISSING. If they ever discovered that they kissed, they'd be sure to send Sonia away to private school which would mean no more best friend from me and no more pretty girlfriend for Lucas.Lucas was 12 like us. He was the oldest out of all of us. By "us" I mean our group of tight knit friends. There was Lucas, Sonia, Raul, Raul's twin sister Alma, Jamie,.