I woke up startled with the metallic banging in the room, heard Alex fall out of bed in fright, and let out a groan, as I barely sat up. I quickly looked around for the troublemaker. It took me a moment to locate Terrence banging a metal pipe on the wall of the room.
"What the hell is he doing?" Austin blurted over the noise.
"Time to get up, princesses!" shouted the Major to us.
"What?!" exclaimed Alex, looking at his watch in his hand: "It's only seven in the morning!”
"That's right, I let you sleep an extra hour, stop crying. Have breakfast and meet me in my office at nine hundred hours" he blurted out before walking briskly out of the room.
Austin let out a curse.
"Alex, are you okay?" asked Jeff.
"Yeah, it was just a little bruise... Damn it! I didn't sleep more than six
