This was partly a consequence of relative rank, but also because her captain was a lesbian. It wasn't that Sheila held any prejudices against homosexu...als, but she did feel nervous given that the captain was so obviously attracted to her.So the only woman with whom Sheila was comfortable in befriending was Petal Chang, the Chief Science Officer. She was a tall slim oriental woman whose role on a mission such as this was unusually important. However, she wore her rank lightly and warmly welcomed. He called me his beautiful girlfriend. The great thing, was he came from the next town over from my town. We had made plans for the next time we both had a home visit on the same weekend we would go out.One weekend after about three months of our little dating romance, we both got leave to go home for the weekend. I was really excited. I was going to actually get to go out with him. I spent the whole day Saturday with my parents but I had asked them if I could go out with Jeff later. My dad. She smiled and acknowledged me. My heart raced as I slowly moved across the crowded dance floor into the waiting seat beside her. “Hi, how are you?” A soft sweet voice from her ruby red lips. “I’ am really well thank you”. I smiled brushing her shoulder as I grasped for her drink. “Would you like another one?” I asked to offer my services to her. “Well I was actually thinking about leaving, I’m so sorry but no.” Bec said with a downtrodden face. “Why so early”? I inquired. Bec began “Well my. "Kurt, since it was originally your idea, it seems only fair that you be the first one to test it."Ferber sat down in the gunner's seat and quickly found the controls. The main control was a joystick with a button on top. There were also three buttons on a panel just above the joystick which were labeled as ammunition selectors. Ferber rotated the mount to face the target. He pressed the button calling for solid slugs. He looked through the sights and used his thumb to press the button on top.