Jake’s question didn’t even bring a smile to her face. She was utterly miserable. ‘Jake, I’m in love with him. I love Gavin so much and I can�...�t get in touch with him to tell him and I just don’t know what to do.’ She sobbed into the phone. Gavin’s friend could hear the weight of emotion in her voice from the next table and was immediately sorry that he’d hung up on her. He tapped her gently on the shoulder. ‘You must be Ellie. Gavin’s just gone to the bar, he’ll be back shortly. Man he’ll be. I saw it done once in a tattoo programme on the TV. It looked brutal, like they were stabbing the needles into the skin and the colours were very bright.” “Well, I’m sure Hazel will be telling us all about it when they get back. Paul will be opening up soon, I’d better get ready for work.” said Sue, “I wonder how many there will be tonight?” “Word will have got round, you know how we women talk, so perhaps we should all come with you to help?” said Mary, “I’m feeling a lot better since I found. We had a really nice time as we picked up chatting, just like we did at lunch the other day. D is very easy to talk too and seemed interested in everything that I had to say. I also found out a lot about him, as we chatted about everything, work, what we both do to exercise…. Blah, Blah Blah….“I hope that you don’t mind me saying,” He said, “But you’re in GREAT shape. What is it that you do for exercise?” “Thank you and no, I don’t mind you saying that at all.” I replied, perhaps blushing a. Scott nervously chewed the flesh on the inside of his cheek as it began to look as if the smoke was coming from the Loarne coast."Please god no, not again." He whispered to himself.All around him men redoubled their efforts as they too began to realise where the smoke was coming from. Two other pairs of boats came into sight, four more of his own boats he could tell by their banners, also heading back to Loarne. As darkness fell they continued to row having identified that the smoke had been.