"Hotter than Sholandra?"Rhonda smirked. "No one is hotter than that." So why are you introducing her to me?"Suddenly an expression of total, devastate...d lovesickness passed across Rhonda's beautiful face. "I met this girl... this model. You don't know her. Or maybe you've seen her picture. Once she was Playmate of the Month."Laura felt a dagger pierce her stomach. It couldn't be Lorrie, she thought. Of course not. She's not a model. Still, her competitiveness with Rhonda made her blood boil. It. See you tomorrow."I fibbed. I was still a couple of miles from Gail's, but if I had told Marge that I was sure that she would have tried to talk me into breaking my date with Gail. It doesn't speak well of me that I would have probably given it some serious thought.Just as I pulled up in front of Gail's my phone went off again and I saw it was Pam."Can you talk?" Yeah. I'm alone." I'm sorry for the other night. His wallet fell out of his pants pocket while he was dressing and they wouldn't let. I told him it was time for me to go and started to get up, but he grabbed my arm and asked me to stay for a bit.I didn’t want to be rude so I sat back down. The guys were getting drunk and I was getting a bit nervous as Jim put his hand on my thigh. I didn’t want to make a scene so I let him leave it there. He whispered in my ear that he thought I was hot and wondered if I wanted to go home with him. He wasn’t exactly my type so I told him my parents had expected me back already and would. "The armada has just translated into n space and there is a message going out on the guard that the Mountserrat government has declared Settlement an open city. Elizabeth is now on guard saying her government will accept whatever terms are offered and that the navy is laid up in ordinary in the harbour" Rosemary reported, "what's the significance of 'laid up in ordinary'?" The ships are shut down and only skeleton crews are aboard just to keep the environment systems functioning" McCock.