? She paused for a bit, fighting desperately to hold back the tears. ?God, I miss her, Amy!??I know!? I replied, gingerly taking her hands into mine, ...as I struggled to fend off tears of my own. ?Me, too!?Erin sat there for a few moments, biting her lip, pensively, before she finally spoke again. ?D-do you ? do you think she’d ? be happy we’ve grown so close? After all ? I’ve basically stolen her best friend.?I swung my chair around the table so I could wrap my arm around her shoulder. ?Hey! You. Before she came the dinner arrived and I had ordered some tandoori chicken which was her favorite. She came out of the wash room and I was stunned to see her in tee and knee length skirt. I was seeing her in a skirt for the first time. I controlled myself and had a small chit chat had food. The TV was on and I relaxed in the bed and asked her to catch some sleep. She came and lied beside me. I don’t know what went through me and I planted a soft kiss in her lips. She didn’t respond and I hugged. Claus and I did, however, have free run of the base after the colonel got tired of us moping around his office. We ate our meals in the enlisted men's mess, a silent movie reel usually followed dinner, preceded by a redundant clip of a speech by the Fuhrer.We would stop by the "social club" tent and peak under the rear canvas discovering it was quite active at all times of day and night. Off limits by the colonel after we lost track of time one night and were late getting home. However, it. A picture of the woman, tearful and distraught, showed her being led from the courthouse in handcuffs. In an interview, one of the women jurors said that they wouldn't have convicted the woman without the tape recorded phone conversations. Had there been no corroborating evidence of the boy's story they would surely have let her go. Given the evidence, however, they had to convict her. They found her not guilty on the sodomy charge precisely because there was no corroborating evidence, only.