Chapter 17
The sun had set a few hours ago, and Charlie had started up the fire pit in his backyard. Everyone sat in a chair around it except Catherine who was snuggled in Charlie’s lap. She listened to the guys tease each other and joke about training incidents during what they called Q course.
Ortiz’s was her favorite, when the trainers kept trying to find out where his Oreo supply was coming from. It turned out he had made friends with someone on base, and they snuck them to him. He said that was how he earned his nickname.
She looked around the fire pit trying to match the names with faces. The nicknames she didn’t think she would ever remember, but their real names she could remember. There was Ortiz and Alex who still insisted on calling Charlie Bdog, to his great annoyance. Then
