Ensign Eric Bauer

"Am I boring you, Mister Darnell?" the Instructor asked one of the four Ensigns in the class.

"Huh? I mean, Sir? Uh . . . no, sir, sorry," the Ensign answered, sitting up straighter in his seat. "It's just that . . . well . . . we had this same lesson three months ago . . . Sir."

"And you will have it again three months from now if you have not been assigned a ship by then," the Instructor replied, tapping the side of his (the Instructor's) neck with his pointer. "Remember how six months ago there were twelve students in this class?"

All heads slowly nodded.

"And most of them have now either flunked out or dropped out?" There were more nods. "Although two did get assigned to EX's as Midshipmen. This group is the 'floating reserve'. By the end of this quarter another eight Ensigns will be assigned to this class, bringing our number back up to twelve. And we will start again."

At that moment there was a knock on the classroom door and when the Instructor yelled, "Enter!" an Enlisted Man scurried in, a stack of square data drives in his hand. "Begging your pardon, Sir, but a dispatch from Celestial Command."

He handed two of the objects to the Instructor and hurried from the room. Looking at the labels with a furrowed bow, the Instructor glanced up towards Ensign Bauer. "One of these is for you."

As the Ensign rushed forward, his face wearing a more bewildered look than the Instructor's, he was given his copy and told to use the computer in the back. The Instructor inserted his disk into the computer on his desk. After only a few seconds, the Instructor looked up with a wide smile on his face and announced loudly, "Well, what do you know, you are now a Midshipman on the 5-EX, Mister Bauer."

The Instructor began to clap his hands, and the other three students joined in.

When classes were over for the day, Ensign Bauer caught the Number 7 bus and headed over to Babs Van Dorn's house. The bus did not actually stop by her house, but on the highway close to the mansion that was her home. The 6,000 square foot, 42 room, three story structure sat on a huge track of land behind a high stone fence. It took Bauer several minutes to walk from the highway to the security gate. When he pressed the button, the view screen lit up with the Butler's face. The Butler, of course, knew Bauer and buzzed him in.

At the front door, he accepted Bauer's uniform cap and said, "Miss Barbara is in the drawing room, I believe. Please wait here while I announce you."

Even after all these weeks he and Babs had been dating, the Butler still treated him like an unwanted door-to-door salesman.

'Miss Barbara' was indeed in the drawing room. Standing before a full length mirror. The trim blonde had her hair tied up in a ponytail with a pink bow. Her simple dress, that buttoned all the way down the front, was also pink as were her shoes. She was admiring her latest purchase. A twelve inch strap-on. It was flesh-colored and held in place by a black harness. Babs had the three lower buttons on her dress un-done and was holding the edges of the dress out to the side as she turned this way and that, studying how the dildo looked.

The Butler's knock on the door caused her to dash to a sofa and cross her legs while re-arranging her dress. Hiding her purchase. When the door was opened and Bauer's presence announced, she told the Butler to send him in.

"Boy, that Butler of yours is a real cold fish," Bauer stated upon entering the room and joining Babs on the couch. They pressed lips together in greeting and she told him to ignore the man. He had been in the family for ages.

Babs was a bit of a wild child. She was a year younger than Bauer's twenty-two, and had been in five separate colleges, either flunking out or being expelled. Her father was working on getting her admitted to a sixth.

"You'll never guess what happened to me today," he told her. But without giving her a chance to guess, he said, "I was assigned to a ship."

"Oh, that's marvelous!" Babs clapped her hands together. "I know how much you have wanted that. We need to celebrate."

Bauer was all for that, but he did not know what Babs had planned.

"I bought you a present today," she said teasingly. And then she slowly pulled back the bottom of her dress while un-crossing her legs.