I said we needed to take things a step at a time. I promised that if Jenn was at all interested, we’d get together.We were both commited enough to t...he idea by then, that neither of us re-enlisted, even though the bonus was considerable.Jennifer was overjoyed to see me, to say the least. She had a little apartment in Manhattan, Kansas, where she’d been going to college. Because of the incentives to getting promoted faster I’d signed up for six years. I had to go to basic almost as soon as I. I couldn’t believe my waking eyes as my vision was restored. A lot of things have changed in the many years I was absent. The year is 2075 and society seems to have transformed into a wonderful place. There are so many new things to see and do but there was something that immediately drew my attention away from everything else. I didn’t see that many men, with the exception of blacks. There were people of all races. Black, white, Asian, mixed races, etc. But there seemed to be a lot more women. They’d set their boundaries, but they were both in the mood to push them. “And the second on?”“Lower,” Bella smirked. Jack pulled the flap of her tent open and politely waited for Bella. _____________________ Janie’s eyes slowly opened. The painkillers Cerise had given her worked well, but also made her very sleepy. She’d barely been awake all day. Tonya was in the room, packing her meager possessions into a few handbags with a lot of fervor and pent-up anger.“Going somewhere?” Janie asked. The bar skank looked dumb, was, as she sauntered over trying to remember her lines, made it easy, telling her to get me a Bud bottle, her eyes lighting up a little, all slags wanted to be told what to do, that was biological. Gave the pig a five dollar tip, she looked perplexed, like she should blow me now or something, the cow. The place was beat, linoleum floor, where it still was, the rest dirty worn wooden planks, the stools mismatched, the bar, once elegant carved mahogany, now worn,.