The next night we were all having supper together. Something about the way Linda and I were acting towards each other, or perhaps not acting toward ea...h other, must have given us away. Suddenly nobody was talking and the adults were exchanging meaningful glances. Linda's father broke the silence with "We need another tent!" the adults all had a good laugh. Linda and I blushed red.Linda was my girlfriend after that but we were pretty young and things never went much past first base. We had a lot. “Did you have a good time?” I said. It sounded a bit lame, but I had to say something. “Is your head ok?”“Oh, I’m fine now,” she replied. “I wasn’t that much over the limit, but I didn’t want to take any chances. I hadn’t seen her for a while, so it was good to catch up on the gossip - which is probably why I forget what I was doing and drink a bit too much.”Then she leant over and squeezed my knee.“And how about you Annie?” she said, and I noticed that she was blushing slightly. “We haven’t. In exasperation the woman pointed to each of the men. Then once she had my attention she knelt down and grabbed up a fistful of grass. This she sprinkled on the leader of the dead men. At that I got the message; or at least I thought I had. I figured out that the women wanted to bury their dead. I pointed to the woman and indicated that they could. That started a whole new pantomime that eventually told me that I had to bury the men. I just sighed at that and shook my head, telling the woman. ’ ‘I was funning you kiddo. You didn’t really think I’d miss the most important day of my only daughters life, did you?’ ‘Well to be honest dad … You knew mum was going to be here and … well, usually you two try to avoid each other. That’s what gave me such a shock to see the pair of you standing here chatting away like old friends.’ ‘Come on Karla, we were never that bad.’ ‘Dad, tell me the last time you and mother were in the same building together?’ ‘Er…’ ‘Don’t bother dad, I’ll tell you,.