Noel excused himself as he walked to a back corner of the bar and staredat the name of his most recent ex-girlfriend. He shook his head withdisgust a... the sight of it, but he picked up the phone anyway."What do you want, Judy?" Is that anyway to answer a phone?" Judy chided."I'm kind of busy," Noel said over the Christmas music blaring in thebackground."Where are you?" I'm out at a bar." Can I join you?" No." Why not?" We broke up," Noel reminded her."I was thinking about that..." You broke. My name is Miles by the way." Well it's nice to finally meet you Miles. I'm Alex." Alex. That's cute." Not all of the boys can agree on that." Odd. I love the way the X rolls off the tongue," he said cheekily. "Now I don't want to waste any moreof your shopping time. Throw those on and we'll see what we've won. I promise I won't peek. " I should hope not Mr. Miles. Us being recent strangers would make that a bit awkward." Depends on your perspective Ms. Alex. Now close that door so you can't. Her mother leaned across from the back and rebuked her daughter. "Heather hasn't been long out of an institution Harry so you must not judge her too harshly for the carers were very demanding". Her voice was not hostile and in the rear vision mirror he was sure that she smiled. "I don't mine", he replied as he changed gear and deliberately gave the daughter's leg a nice rub. Of course he didn't know of her experience in the institution or the many times the 'carers' had given her a touch up so. ”When the drinks arrived and they were seated she said, “Now tell me the rumours.”“Well, you have dozens of bodyguards, and they don’t let you sleep in college, and they want to go to all your lectures and tutorials, and they are all skilled in hand to hand fighting, and they stop any boy from speaking to you, or even getting within six feet of you, and they are armed, and all sorts of things...”“The truth is I have no more than four of them on duty at any one time. With them and my other staff.