"In the gathering darkness, we pitched our tent. Abigail watched with interest as I mounted our proximity detector on a lightweight magnesium-alloy po...le. "This is a nice, open clearing," I commented. "Guard duty tonight will be little more than staying awake and making sure the sensors are operational."Abigail nodded. "We'll sleep in shifts?" Oh yeah." I muttered. I was pre-occupied studying the sensor's start-up diagnostics. I wasn't anticipating the guard duty to be a problem. Thousands of. He could feel his boxers clinging to his body, sticking to him, the way he imagined Shannon would be in just a few short hours. He hurried up to the room that they had reserved.The Presidential Suite, just as he’d imagined.As Mike entered the suite, he noticed a bottle of chilled champagne on the table, along with a vase filled with a dozen red roses and a tray of chocolate candy. Alongside the vase was an envelope which read “To Mike”. He opened the note and immediately recognized Shannon’s. ??Wait!? he said with great concern in his voice. ?I'll be wearing mystudents? underwear!???Well, you can't wear mine, I'm a size 12,? said Audrey, ?and you can'twear Cathy?s because she's a pretty well developed woman. Face it,stud, your best bet is to borrow from the freshman girls.?She and Cathy laughed just a bit of nervous laughter. Kelly justsighed. His whole life he'd hated being mistaken for a child or a girl.Now, his best bet was to borrow from 14 year old girls. ?I can't looklike a. She was a beautiful girl but she could be arrogant and disdainful towards those of lower station – which included my son and I.She had rarely taken a supercilious tone with me but with Charles when I was not around she was quite dreadful and domineering. “Ah, how was planting today, Grandmother?” she asked her.“Never mind such business,” Madame told her granddaughter to mind her station and we sat stoically at the table almost as if waiting for the gaggle of servants to enter as they had prior.