..." Wally!" I cried. "I've got news for you, Hon. He and I are an item.Have been for months. He says I'm hotter than you are. And tighter!He says... I have `a mouth made for love.' It'll be the easiest thing inthe world to take him away from you. Once he gets an eyeful of me inthis cute outfit..."-+-Appropriately, it was Hallowe'en that was my downfall.I hadn't wanted to do it; I knew what would happen if I did. I knewmy secret would be found out. But she insisted. "I think you'd. So, how was it? he asked. And in that instant all of the euphoria Id felt during the kiss was gone and replaced by an bottomless pit in my stomach. An endless wave of thoughts and questions washed into the pit. Had that really just happened? I had just made out with my muscular, hunky, straight best friend. What the fuck? Was he straight? Maybe hes bi? Why did he do that? What did it me? Does he like me like me? Why am I turned on? Is it ok that Im turned on? As these thoughts raced through my. Diary, I woke to a hand jostling me; I roused from the depths of sleep. I cracked my eyes open and blearily looked at ... Mom. Sandy.“If Heather’s going to ride to school with Charlie, she’s got to get a move on,” she whispered.That snapped my brain into gear. Today is Heather’s first day at university! I sat up a bit to find her. Oh. That’s right. There are five of us in the bed this morning. Fortunately, Heather was the girl snuggled into my left side. I shook her; her eyes popped open.“Time. “Not fully, sir,” the communication officer answers. “We only have a partial to a few of the ships.”“That will be enough then. Send the orders to each ship captain we can talk to and have them in turn forward to the ships we cannot.”“Yes sir”“Set up a defensive ring. I want us protected until our repairs are sufficient enough to engage the enemy ourselves. Get our half our subs out in a two hundred foot circumference patrolling. The remainder I want protecting as many of our ships as.