Griffin, W.E.B. - The Corps 09 - Under Fire by Griffin W. E. B

Author:Griffin, W. E. B.
Language: eng
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He raised his face to the showerhead, and after a mo-ment opened his eyes and turned in his wife's arms and held her to him. She raised her face to his, and they kissed. She caught his hand and directed it to her stomach. "You want to tell me what's going on?" Ken McCoy asked.

Ernie was lying with her head on his chest, her legs thrown over his.

"Going on about what?"

"It's starting to show," she said, softly. He caressed her stomach for a moment, and then, with a groan, picked her up and carried her out of the shower to the bed. "About everything," he said. "The house, the Japanese-wife routine. Everything." "Well, they're sort of tied together," Ernie said. "Start with the house," he said. "How did we get it back?

General Pickering?" "Actually, it's ours," Ernie said. "What do you mean, òurs'?" "We own it," she said. "How come we own it?" "Well, when I went to the housing office when we first came to Japan, what they were going to give us

was a cap-tain's apartment-a captain/no children's apartment. They give out quarters on the size of the family. A captain/no children gets one bedroom and a bedroom/study. I didn't like what they showed me, and I knew you wouldn't, so I went house-hunting...."

"And bought this, and didn't tell me?" "I didn't tell you because you thought our having money was going to hurt your Marine Corps career,"

she said. "I was willing to go along with that, but the quarters were dif-ferent. I didn't want to live in that lousy little apartment. You really want to hear all of this?" "All of it," he said. "Okay. If you don't like what they offer you, you can `go on the economy,' and if you can find something

to rent that your housing allowance will pay for, they'll rent it for you." "You said you bought it?" "What you can rent on a captain's housing allowance is just about what they have, a dinky little

apartment. So I made a deal with the Japanese real estate guy. I would buy this place. He would say he was renting it to me. They would send him a check for your housing allowance, which he would turn over to me."

"Jesus!" "Then, when they sent us home, I figured it would sell better with furniture in it...

No, that's not true. I wanted to sell the furniture, except for a few really personal things-that Ming vase we bought in Taipei,

for example. When we started our new, out-of-the-Marine-Corps life, I didn't want you to remember, every time you sat on the couch or something, how they had crapped all over you." McCoy said nothing.

"So it didn't sell while we were in the States," she said. "So when you and Uncle Flem came back, I called the real estate guy and told him to take it off the market. Then I de-cided, what the hell, since we have a house in Tokyo, there's no point in me staying in the States all by my fuck-ing lonesome.

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