We arrived all ready to get on the slopes, we decided to leave straight away and not waste the day. Our ski trips were always a lot of fun but this ye...ar was special. Erica had decided to join us. Throughout high school I always found myself doing odd, some may say perverse things around her. She was in my Latin class and I would make it a point to follow her just to see her walking in those tight jeans. Our relationship throughout high school was nothing special. One of my friends had gone out. "Ah boy, you've got taste," said Sergei Ivanovich, gazing at Ilona with an approving look. "I bet she's like a little girl at night, heh?" Ilona, make my sister at home," ordered Vladimir with a snap in his voice. "Father and I have things to discuss."Ilona scurried over to Anna, who watched the young woman with an eye almost as critical as her father's. Ilona was the exact oposite of Noor: pale, blonde, and voluptuous, with curves that put Anna's to shame. Her face was pretty enough, but. .. while Flakfortet had much smaller Danish flags everywhere.There was a man, probably Artillery Corps, watching us with binoculars while we were watching him with ours; he followed us all the way around the island. Interesting.Whatever.We didn't stop at either fortet.With Helsingør to our port and Heslingborg to the starboard, we sailed through the narrows and out into the Kattegatt, the big bay between Denmark and Sweden.Then out past Skagen at the tip of the Jutland Peninsula and into the. “See you, honey.” They were closer than I thought, I thought. I looked at Sandy in askance. She just shrugged. “We’re close. You never gave me a sister.”“Well, it wasn’t for lack of trying!!”“I know. Mom told me it was her. She explained that, and lots of other things and gave me enough advice to last right through menopause.”“EWWWW. WTMI. Way too much information.”“Oh hush. You’re my mother now, too. Get used to it.”“Oh crap.”The weekend was spent with Sandy doing makeup homework and studying.