Eleventh General Order of the Navy – To be especially watchful at night, and, during the time for challenging, to challenge all persons on or near my post and to allow no one to pass without proper authorityHelen and Jolene walked ahead of Jaxon and Dean as they followed the crowd. They were escorted to their seats which were close to the floor. Or, as the sailor called it, the drill deck.Helen sat in the inside seat followed by her daughter and son. Dean sat at the end and suddenly felt alone and by herself. Jaxon and Jolene had each other and their mother. And Helen had all her kids and Reese.But who did she have?She was an orphan. An only child. On what should have been a happy day, grief washed over her.A strong arm was placed around her shoulders and pulled her into Jaxon’s side. His other hand reached down and lightly grasped her tightly connected hands.“Breathe, sweetheart.”Dean took in a deep ragged breath and was only then aware that she had been holding her breath. Le
I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities. – Tony CurtisJD had kept his eyes forward the entire time, never looking around. Luckily, his family was sitting within his line of sight. And Dean was wearing an outfit with bright blue and he could only hope that it meant that she was wearing his shoes.When he went to get his award, his eyes drifted towards her feet, and he caught a glimpse of the blue shoes that he declared were his. Keeping his eyes straight ahead, he reported in and received his accolade. Marching back to his place, he mentally pumped his fist in the air and silently screamed in celebration. He loved those shoes.The speech and rest of the ceremony seemed to drag on forever and ever. Although JD knew the whole ceremony was only about an hour and a half, after he found his girl, it seemed to take the rest of the day. And maybe part of the following week.But fina
They say we are too young to love but maybe they are too old to remember, - Wiz KhalifaThe lunch was nice.JD was pretty sure it was nice. He remembered smiling a lot. Mainly as he watched Dean. With a blanket over his uniform, he had fed his younger siblings their bottles. It was something that he discovered he had missed. Who would have thought that feeding a baby their bottle would be something that a nineteen-year-old man would miss? But he had. He had missed Janelle watching everything around her while she ate and tried to stay awake. And how Jagger would get so excited over getting to eat. There was no doubt that he was going to be just as big as his dad. And little Jaina…Her large blue eyes stared at him, and he swore she was asking “Where the hell have you been?”After he burped the youngest of the triplets, he took his niece and fed her also. “You look good doing that.” Holmes said as he sat down next to JD. “Planning on having any of your o
For one, more men should read romance novels because they can serve as instruction manuals for relationships. – Nikki DemarcoLooking at JD as he hovered over her, Dean couldn’t help the laughter that escaped her. “First, I’m a virgin, I really don’t know what I want.”“I volunteer as tribute.” He began to kiss a trail down her neck to her breasts. “I know you like this.”She gasped as his mouth latched onto her nipple and her back arched in pleasure. “Second, I don’t think the other seaman would appreciate you reading spicy books.”“They might borrow them.” He trailed the tip of his tongue from one nipple to the other.“And third, you don’t have any tentacles, horns or a tail.” She could only grin at his confused look. “I’ve been reading monster smut.”“That’s really a thing?” he asked with a grin thinking that she was bullshitting him.“Yeah.” She grinned back at him. “I was reading some reverse harem for a while and let me say, Bunny is a lucky woman.”
When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life. – Keanu ReevesThe trip to Chicago ended too soon. It had been hard to watch JD and Dean say goodbye at the gate. He didn’t want to let her go and she refused to release him from her grasp. It had been Savannah, the driver that they had befriended and hired for the rest of their trip, that had finally pulled her away.“Trust me, little girl.” The woman said as she gently pried Dean’s hands off the uniform. “No one knows better than me how much it sucks to hand over your man to the Navy. But they own him now.”Finally releasing his uniform, she clutched his hand. “You’re going to come back to me?”“Always, baby.” He whispered with his voice also thick with emotions. Leaning in, he kissed her gently. “I love you, Dean. I will always come back to you.”Then he hugged his older brother and sisters and their partners before giving each of the babies a little snuggle
A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. – Ralph Waldo EmersonOn the first Friday in November, afternoon Reese sat in his office with the conference call on speakerphone. The architect, engineer and site foreman were not on the same page. Rubbing his forehead, he wondered if they were even in the same book. Clicking on the calendar on his computer, he looked for a time that all four of them would be available. And soon.“George,” Reese said to the foreman, cutting off the engineer, “go ahead and shut the site down before the city comes in and shuts us down.”“No offense, Reese,” George replied, “with the holidays coming up, my men would rather work until the city shuts us down.”“How many times do I have to tell you, I’m calling it, I’m shutting it down, your crew will still get paid.” He tried to keep his voice calm, but damn it, he was tired of telling them this. “It’s not common in the trades.” George pointed out. “As
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. – Gina RodriguezIt was a little after nine when Reese pulled into the back parking lot behind the turn of the century dry goods store that now housed his company offices. The last store at the end was becoming available at the end of the year, and he planned on owning it. Tire of sharing a single office, his project managers had been requesting offices of their own.Most of their work was done on site, and they each had offices in their houses. He contracted with an architecture company and a separate engineering company. The trades were all self-contained within his company. Except landscaping – he had two companies that he contracted with for that. TRAAC took care of the payroll and financial side of the business.For the most part, it was just Willow at the office. And that was how she preferred it. He worried about her, but Neo always had someone keeping an eye on her. Stepping through the back door, he found himself steppi
Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom? – Terry Pratchett, HogfatherNeo walked into the apartment and found Jo sitting on the couch with her knees pulled up almost to her chest. The Nightmare Before Christmas blanket from her childhood covered her legs. Her hair was pulled up in a messy bun and she wore a dark blue sweatshirt, and he could barely see the top of the yellow print. He knew what was written on the shirt – PROUD NAVY SISTER.Chuckling, he thought about the day that they had gone to the art museum. If the fact that JD was in a new uniform with hardly any ranks or ribbons didn’t tell people that they were a Navy family, all the sweatshirts and onesies did. It wasn’t anything that was done intentionally. They had all bought the shirts before leaving for Chicago.PROUD NAVY DADPROUD NAVY MOMPROUD NAVY BROTHERPROUD NAVY SISTERI HEART MY SAILORLITTLE NAV