"Take your samples and go if you want to. I am going to find her and let her know we are leaving."Dr. Taylor paused. Her instinct was to leave but the...e was also safety in numbers."Okay, have it your way. But we are only going to spend five minutes tops looking for her and then we go. Understood!?"Pete did not agree but he nodded to shut the doctor up. He was creeped out by the place and also didn't relish being alone here.Unbeknownst to Pete and Dr. Taylor, Anne had walked ahead but not by. It was my girlfriend who told me I should speak up. She's sixteen, and very pretty and smart.'"Julia interrupted. "That was very clever, Carol. And thank you too." To the rest of us, Julia explained, "We rehearsed some things, but not for how Carol would respond to her teachers. Carol made that up on the spot."Carol said, "I didn't make it up. Every word is true. You are my girlfriend, you did tell me to speak up, and you are sixteen, very pretty and smart."Julia countered, "I won't argue with. I saw two trackmen under the car whacking the wheels with an iron bar and prying at the brakes. I guess if it doesn't fall off when they whack it, it is okay.There was a grill right outside the station. We hurried over and ordered lunch, telling the waitress we needed to catch a train. She smiled; I'm sure having heard the same a million times. Chloe and I both ordered the hamburgers. A regular old hamburger sounded great.The waitress brought the burgers in no time and Chloe and I soon had the. But if I didn’t have cover, well, everyone would know what happened to me, wouldn’t they. So I thought it would never happen, and when it did – I was in my 40s by then – it was sheer fluke. For a long time I’d gone round studios, like in Soho, and then Miss Debby Ann Trent’s studio in Stoke, looking like a perv (not difficult of course) and asking pathetically for ‘spare photos’ to buy. The only time a studio did have spare photos was Terri’s Glamourworld, and not only did Miss Melanie sell me.