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“Feel-my-ass,” she ordered, emphasizing each word separately.

  Shaking my head resignedly I cupped her ass tightly.

  “Now leave them there,” she said as she took her hands away from mine. Moving her hands she reached around my waist and cupped my butt.

  “Now, are we friends?”

  Laughing, “Yes damnit, we’re friends ERIKA,” I said, emphasizing her name without using rank. I gave her butt a squeeze and said. “Are you happy now?”

  “Almost,” she laughed and gave my butt a firm squeeze. “Now I am.”

  “Let’s finish our workout.”

  We hit our workout pretty hard after that. I was feeling very energetic and pushed us hard on our exercises. Erika waited until I began my movement before she’d move into hers, every time she seemed to angle herself so that I had a perfect view of her butt or chest, I just smiled and made sure to enjoy the show. Afterward, we were both heaving and sweaty.

  “Can I borrow your IPod?” she asked. “I’d like to download some of the music.”

  “Sure,” I said as I handed it to her.

  Chapter 5

  From that point on our friendship deepened. I began to refer to her by name when we were alone and we spent most of our off days together. We ate chow and hung out at the MWR tent in our free time.

  One morning as I was walking across the compound, gravel crunching under my feet.

  “Gunny! Hey gunny!”

  I looked up to see my CO walking toward me.

  “Hey gunz, I have a KLE today at Lashkar Gah, I need security, want to go?” he asked coming to a halt in front of me. “Should be an easy day, they want us to have lunch with local governor.”

  “Sure, I’m always up for a free meal. When do we leave?”

  “About two hours, is that sat?” As I nodded yes he asked, “Know anybody else who might want to go?”

  “I can see if Mendes wants to come.”

  “Great, let me know and then go stage at company headquarters,” he said as he turned to walk off. “I’m gonna go get my gear and I’ll meet you there.”

  I walked over to the barracks, heart pounding. The CO was letting me go outside the wire with him, if he thought I was ready it wouldn’t be long before I was back with my platoon on missions.

  Reaching her room I began to knock, “Hey Mendes, open up if you’re in there, it’s important.”

  After a minute, she opened her door, barefoot, sleepy faced, hair tousled and wearing a gray USMC shirt that barely came to her thigh. She looked cute and sleepy!

  “What?” she growled, “I was sleeping damnit, this had better be good.”

  “Uhmmm…” I stuttered, I totally forgot what I was going to tell her, I couldn’t take my eyes off her legs.

  “If you woke me up just to stare at my legs I swear to god I will kill you,” she said.

  “Huh,… er, no…” clearing my throat, “We have a mission, get dressed and ready.”

  “WHAT? It’s my fucking day off!”

  “No, not an EOD mission, something easy, we’re gonna be security for the CO and group, they’re gonna go meet local governor for lunch. I thought you might enjoy it, easy day you know.”

  She just stared at me, “Why would I want to do this?”

  Laughing, “It’ll be fun I promise, nothing big, we just perform security during chow, afterward they have a meeting and then we’ll get to eat, the foods good and it’s a change of pace from getting shot at and defusing bombs.”

  “Ughhh, fine, let me get dressed.”

  “Is that all you wearing?” I asked grinning.

  Narrowing her eyes she turned to her side and then lifted her shirt to above thigh. I could see smooth golden skin without panties, but she kept her front and back angled so that I couldn’t see anything else.

  “Happy?” she asked smirking.

  “Very… we’re staging at company headquarters, bring your stuff there,” I said and turned away.

  “Yeah, yeah…I’ll be there in twenty,” she said as she dropped her shirt.

  “Hey gunny,” I heard her say, turning back around I was hit in the face with her shirt, I caught a brief glance of her naked body with dark nipples and a small racing stripe and then the door closed.

  “That was so wrong,” I said to a closed door. I could hear laughing from inside.

  Chapter 6

  We sat in the rear of the MRAP on the way back from the meeting. We’d had a good time at the luncheon, the food was good and we were able to look out at the city from the governor’s compound. Mendes had fallen asleep across from me, she had taken off her flak and was in a t-shirt leaving her arms bare. I decided to mess with her, pulling out a black marker that I kept in my pocket for marking gear or prisoner tags, I carefully moved to her side. I pressed the marker onto her arm, watching her carefully, she didn’t move. Smiling I began to draw. Just as I finished I heard the radio squawk, I heard the CO saying my call sign, echo seven sierra.

  “This is sierra,” I replied as I grabbed the handset and keyed it.

  “Hey, we got that EOD sergeant with us right?”

  “Yes,” I replied. I nudged Mendes awake and flipped the speaker on.

  “Good to go, we have a hand cart by the road that wasn’t here the first time we drove through, we could call the other team in, but why wait? She has her suit right?”

  She looked at me and nodded yes.

  “Yes sir, she’ll be ready in 10 minutes, sierra out,” I said while motioning the driver to pull to the side of the road.

  “Good to go. Papa out”

  “Let’s go,” I told Mendes. “Stay here and I’ll check an make sure we’re clear.” I moved to the back, popped the door, and hopped down to complete a quick survey of the area.

  After a minute, “Ok, let’s get you suited up sergeant.” We might be friends, but in the field on a mission, I was all professional.

  Her eyes a little wide Mendes looked at me, “We have a small problem…” she said.

  “What?”

  “Uhmmm, I didn’t plan on doing any EOD stuff today…”

  “Ok, so what?” I replied. “You have your gear, let’s do this.”

  Sighing, “This is awkward… what I mean to say is that I don’t have my PT gear on underneath my clothes.”

  “Oh… Oooooooo,” As I realized what she meant. “Ok, I’ll just turn around and you get dressed, problem solved.”

  “That’ll take forever, you ever tried to put this suit on by yourself? It’s a damn nightmare. Look, just make sure nobody else can see me.”

  I scanned the area, the vehicle behind us was facing the rear for security, everybody else was facing out looking for threats. “You’re clear,” I said. “Why don’t you just keep your uniform on?” I asked.

  “Because it’s about a hundred freaking degrees inside this thing and I’ll pass out,” she said as she began undoing her belt. She slid off her trousers and turned around to step into her suit. She bent over and I saw her practically bare ass, all she was wearing was a pink thong.

  “Holy,” I whispered. “Nice ass sergeant!” forgetting my professionalism for a moment.

  Grinning, she looked over her shoulder, “Like it huh?”

  “Very much!”

  Laughing, “Ok, enough staring, help me get the rest of this thing on.” As she turned back toward the front she saw her arm. Frowning she paused and looked at it more closely. “Why do I have ‘I’m a nerd’ written in marker on my arm?” she hissed looking back at me.

  “No idea,” I smiled with mock innocence. It was hard to look her in the eyes when her ass was still exposed to me, I could see a tan line on her dark skin. Brows furrowed, “Is that a thong tan line? Do you go to the beach wearing that?” I asked.

  Blushing, she replied, “Don’t change the subject! You’re lucky we’re in a hurry buddy, just wait, we’re gonna talk about this!” she said as she focused on putting on the rest of her suit.

  “Yeah right, you’re just lucky I don’t have m
y iPod to get a pic of this,” I muttered under my breath.

  “Already been done,” she said.

  “Huh?” I said frowning.

  “Nothing, never mind,” she said.

  After that we both stayed quiet as I helped her get her suit on, in a few minutes we had her dressed and ready to go. I turned on her radio, it was voice activated and keyed directly to mine, she could call out to me anytime she wanted and I would know what was happening.

  “All right, I’ll move forward first, then when I get to within one hundred yards I’ll pause and release you to move forward, got it?” I said into our radio.

  “Loud and clear,” she said as she gave me a thumbs up.

  We began to move forward on the road. After I stopped she moved toward the site, procedure had her constantly talking to let me know the situation. If something went wrong we might be able to figure out the problem with her last recordings.

  “Approaching suspected IED site, I see a two wheeled hand cart parked next to the road. The cart was not here on our earlier route, very unusual to leave something like this out. As I get closer I can see wires on the inside. Ten yards out now, I can positively identify explosives, moving to the side to get a better look. …Wow, this is a big one, looks like its victim detonated, I can see the lines leading to a trigger… looks like an improvised pressure plate… When a vehicle drives over plate buried in road the contacts will detonate the device. … I can see at least four, one hundred pound munitions, they look daisy chained together. … Ok, simple enough, I’m not going to defuse, just going to attach some C4 and blow in place. … Clear the area to at least 500 meters.”

  Listening to this I began to relay her comments to my CO. “Sir, we need to move everyone back, she’s gonna blow it in place.”

  “Got it,” he said.

  She began to attach the explosives to the IED and then moved back toward me. As she moved next to me she held up a detonator.

  “You want the honors?” she asked.

  I silently took the detonator as we moved behind our vehicle. I pressed the button.

  KABOOOOOOOOM!!!

  “That was very cool,” I said out loud as we both watched the explosion cloud. Then I whispered into the radio, “But seeing your ass was the best part of the day!”

  She stayed looking forward, but I could her smile through the suits faceplate.

  Chapter 7

  “You wanted to see me sir?” I said to my CO as I walked into his office.

  “Yeah, you were a generator mechanic before you joined right?”

  “Yes sir.”

  Good to go, you know how we converted the water tank in building C5 to a pool, the generator isn’t running. Needs to be fixed before we open it up,” he tossed me a set of keys. “Go look at it, see if we can get it running so everyone can swim.”

  “On it.”

  I left his office and walked toward the appointed building, I ran into Mendes on the way.

  “Whatcha up to?” she asked, falling into step next to me.

  “Going to check out the generator for the water tank we converted.”

  “Oooo, I want to see it, can I come.”

  “No problem.”

  We reached the building quick enough and I unlocked the door and we walked in. I flicked the light switch, nothing. The sky was cloudy but enough light shone through the skylight for us to see the tank. It was about the size of a home swimming pool. I looked around for the generator.

  “I think it’s over here,” I said pointing to a partition, the generator was behind it. She followed me as I began to inspect it. I immediately discovered the problem. The fuel line had a break and was letting air into the line.

  “Can you fix it?” she said.

  “Easily,” I replied. “I just need to take off the line and go to the motor pool and get a new one.”

  I started working as she watched, in no time I had the line off.

  “You stay here, I’ll go get a new line and be right back.”

  I left to the motorpool to get the new line. The weather was warming up quick, it was already late April and the days were hot, in no time at all it would be sweltering, having a pool would be a welcome relief on our small base. I came back with the line quickly, I opened the door to find Erika sitting on the side of the pool with her boots and socks off and her feet in the water.

  “Feels good,” she said.

  “I’ll join you in a minute,” I said. “Just let me install this.”

  “Yay,” she smiled.

  I went to the back and quickly connected the line.

  “Hurry up,” I heard her call out.

  “Already done,” I said as I walked back. I looked around but she had disappeared, a pile of clothes sat next to where she’d sat. The water rippled with waves. I walked to her pile of clothes, suddenly she surfaced at the far end of the pool.

  “What the hell?” I said.

  “We might as well be the first to swim since you fixed the problem,” she said. “We’ll never get another chance to swim alone once this place opens.”

  “Uh… sure,” I looked down and picked up a small wisp of sheer red and black fabric. “Are these your panties… cause that would mean that your skinny dipping.”

  She gave me a big smile, “How many people can say they went skinny dipping in Afghanistan?”

  I quickly turned around and began stripping, I was down to my black sport shorts before I paused, “You sure about this?” I asked.

  “If you’re not in the water in 10 seconds I’m leaving,” she said.

  I pulled my bottoms off and hopped in the tank.

  “Nice butt,” she said as I swam over to her.

  I swam next to her, testing the depth I found the water was about between four and five feet deep. The water barely covered her chest and her wet hair hung to one side, the ends swirling in the water. I could catch flashes of her nipples through the water as she swished her arms back and forth.. She really was naked!

  “You know I could get in so much trouble for this right?” I told her.

  She grinned and closed the distance between us, she wrapped her legs around me and looped her arms around my neck. I instinctively grabbed her ass as she crushed her boobs to my chest, I could feel how hard her nipples were as they pressed into my skin. She raised her lips to within an inch of mine, her eyes closed.

  “If you want to stop, we can leave any moment,” she said huskily. Her fingers stroked my chin, her slim pink tongue darted out and licked my parted lips. “Just say the word.”

  I felt myself getting hard, it would have been impossible for her not to feel it pressed between us.

  I groaned and tried to kiss her, she pulled back but continued to tease me. Cupping my chin and kissing it, the soft kiss on the corner of my mouth. She began lightly kissing my neck and I growled. After torturing me for minutes she grabbed my face with both hands and pressed her lips into mine. Out tongues me, she ran hers along my teeth, mine danced with hers. I cupped her ass harder and hoisted her higher, she whimpered and continued to softly kiss me. Our passion grew and a fierce need rose inside me.

  BAM BAM BAM, the door banged. “Hey Gunny Hunter, you in there?” it was my CO’s voice.

  We froze, at the same time we both looked at the door.

  “Did you lock it,” she asked.

  “I think so,” I said.

  She raised an eyebrow at me.

  I glared at her, “Like I knew this would happen.”

  We heard the handle rattle, my heart froze, but the handle never turned.

  “Whew,” we both cried, we looked at each other and grinned. After a few seconds the sounds from the door faded.

  “Time to go,” said Mendes. She swam to the side and pulled herself out. I got my first unimpeded look at her ass. It was tight and perfectly toned, I could see the muscle in her thighs.

  “Nice ass,” I said.

  She smiled over her shoulder at me, “Flattery won’t get you any more today, we need t
o go before he comes back.”

  “Yeah,” I agreed. “That would be awkward.”

  I got out and dressed, since we were both wet we knew we needed to go change. As we got to the front door, she reached out and grabbed my hand, I looked at her, her wet hair hung over her face.

  “We need to split and go get fresh clothes on ok?” she said.

  I nodded, “Yeah, that would probably be best,” I said, trying to hide my disappointment.

  She sensed it anyway, and smiled at me, quickly she reached up and pressed her lips against mine, quickly but tenderly. “Patience, some things are worth the wait,” she said, then she opened the door and rapidly walked away.

  Chapter 8

  The next few days were very professional between us as we figured out our feelings and where to go from there. It wasn’t awkward, we smiled at each other but I think we both felt the need to see if there was a continued attraction or if it was just a heat of the moment thing.

  “Hey Mendes,” I said as I walked up to our staging point a week later.

  “Morning Gunny,” she replied.

  This particular sunny morning we were checking over our trucks and gear to make sure they were in good working order. She had already pulled her suit out and laid it out on the concrete when I showed up. I immediately began removing other gear from the back. As I laid out safety and recovery gear I looked around to see if anyone was close by. The other crews were doing checks on their vehicles but the closest was more than 50 yards away and couldn’t hear us unless we yelled.

  “So something interesting happened last night,” I said.

  She looked at me as she worked, “Oh yeah, what?”

  “I happened to look on my iPod and I found some pictures that I didn’t take.”

  She grinned, “Oh yeah, what kind?” she asked with mock innocence.

  Again flashing a look to make sure nobody could hear, I whispered “They were of you, NAKED!”

  Laughing, “Took you long enough to find them, I took those when I borrowed your iPod to download some music, that was weeks ago. Did you like them?”

  Snorting, “That is as close to a dumb question as I’ve ever heard, I loved them and now that comment makes sense, when you said ‘already been done’ on that KLE mission.”