Aloysius’ eyes opened and he growled, ‘Stop it.’ The young man smiled widely, ‘Good to have you back mate.’ Ranulf and Alma stood near the...door and he risked a quick glance outside, ‘About twenty of them, plus the old man, I think. What have we got?’ Taika looked at the bale of straw where the three torturers had laid their weapons, ‘we have whatever you brought with you and three guns here as well as a few knives.’ Aloysius struggled to his feet, kicked the ropes away and collected the. Why not take a nice hot shower and get to bed, and we can talk in the morning?" Mmm, yes, Stevie, that sounds like a good prescription to me. I'm sorry about all the mess, leave it until tomorrow if you like, and ..." Just get yourself off to bed," I jumped in, "and leave the clearing up to me."Mum departed and I cleared up; in any event, it didn't take too long, and I could hear the soft sound of Mum's breathing as I took myself to bed.I was woken in the early hours by someone calling my name.. "Lou?" the woman asked me from about a dozen feet away."Yes, Amanda? Amanda and Bill?" I asked back as they made their way closer. Yes, I could see it was them now for certain."Well, right on time, it's nice to meet you," Amanda said as she leaned her cheek over for me to kiss. About then, the girl got out of the hot tub and came over and dove in the pool surfacing quite near the three of us. As she shook her head sideways getting the water off her hair, she asked, "Are you Lou?"I was. Well the night goes on and everyone is drunk out there mind but i notice you were kinda sitting over by the kitchen, making people some of your famous drinks and i come over and ask do you need a hand making some drinks? You say," yeah that'll be great. I know most of the people in here and they can get pretty wasted. Everyone's staying here tonight because i'm not going to let them drink and drive from my place." Then we start making drinks and every now and then, we would make eye contact and.