today. Nobody can mess with Missy McCrea!”
Chapter Five
Oct 13, 2019
Missy was once again all dressed up and headed over to the Visitor’s Center. Her new plebe, Emily Robinson, had pleaded for her to come and meet her family. Since Missy actually was free that afternoon and hadn’t made any other commitments, she had agreed. Emily had just been assigned to her; Missy was replacing Cadet Melo, Emily’s former team leader, who had taken some liberties which had gone far beyond inappropriate touching. Yes, he’d been very drunk, which actually had been a good thing. Had he not been quite so tipsy, his attempted rape might have been successful.
Emily was only average looking, from a distance. But, she was very fit, with a trim runner’s body, and up close her warm green eyes and infectious smile were captivating. She indeed was proof a girl didn’t need big boobs to get guys hot and bothered. Without consciously making any effort, she was incredibly sexy in a number of little ways, all of which added up to making many guys take a second look, then a third, Then, they’d come on to her in a big way.
Since Missy had been off soldiering in Afghanistan when the assignments for team leaders had all been determined, her late arrival back at the academy had left her without any plebe assigned to her. Thus, when Melo’s misbehavior had led to Emily no longer having any team leader, Missy had been asked to take his place. They were both in the same regiment so that worked. And, Emily was very excited about her new team leader; everyone had told her what a great person Missy was. As a result, on this her first opportunity to see her family since Acceptance Day in August, she’d wanted them all to meet Missy.
Part of this was due to her not having ever mentioned Cadet Melo to her family. And, with the unpleasant almost-rape incident now behind her and with him contritely accepting probation and punishment for having manhandled her that night, she wanted to avoid ever mentioning anything to them about him at all.
An even bigger part, however, was due to wanting them to see Missy, a female soldier who had actually served in combat and wore several decorations from having done so with distinction. Emily’s grandfather, on her father’s side, had been a soldier. He had spent a year in Vietnam and been very proud of having served his country. His oldest son, her father, had been inspired by that to make a career in the Navy, retiring just a year earlier after twenty-four years. They both had been enlisted men, not officers, but had exposed her to life in the military. Now, she wanted to serve and, having scored high on her college SAT’s and been in the top of her high school class, she’d been accepted to West Point.
Her twin brother, like her maternal grandmother, was “something else” and was not at all interested in the military. Her parents would have been thrilled had it been him wanting to become an officer. They were not at all happy about her insisting it was what she wanted to do with her life. Had they been able to afford paying for her to attend college, they never would have agreed to her going to the academy. But, with her brother’s college expenses being all they could manage, they couldn’t say no to her.
She wanted them to actually meet someone, a girl like herself, who was not only at the academy but who had proven herself in combat. She hoped they then would be more accepting of her own goals, which by no means were as lofty as achieving what Missy McCrea had accomplished, but which indeed were aimed towards “being all she could be”. In the Army. For her country.
Ironically, while Emily had wanted to keep quiet about what Cadet Melo had done, as she was determined to never be seen as a victim, no matter what … after her roommate spoke to Sally Navarro, things had all happened as though the Fates were smiling down, taking a particular