"I did warn you Martina, honey. They's rough! Thank God ya never told mewhat you were getting up to with Whitehouse!"Martina burst into tears."There, ...here, silly girl. Come now," said Linda and she hugged Martina.After a pause Linda said softly: "Y'know ya can't let the bastards getyou down, Martina." But I'm fucked, Linda, fucked!" said Martina, "I look like a beachedwhale - with a boy's head! And if I don't go along with the whole deal,they'll fix me no mistake! I don't even know what else. I saw my first british soap opera then “Crossroads” a drama set in midlands Birmingham. Couldn,t understand what those “brummies” were trying to say and just about know what they,re saying now. Never knew how many different ways to speak English till I came to this country. Strangely you can speak one dialect here in Cheshire. Drivea few miles down the road and it,s Different there! Odd thing this language game! Any way that was followed by “Coronation Street” a soap set in Manchester and again. "Did you really do this kind of stuff, growing up?" Never mind what I did, growing up," I told her. "You and I are going to do some historical reenactments. This is the first of several I have in mind. You are -- oh, you're sixteen tonight. And I'm a little older. Eighteen, maybe. A real man of the world." My parents wouldn't have allowed me to go out alone with a boy when I was sixteen. And certainly not with an eighteen-year-old boy." Probably they wouldn't have been too thrilled about my. “I’ve got to tell him I miss him. I don’t care about our plan.”She got her phone out. “Oh damn! The battery’s flat. Never mind, I’ll charge it when I get home. I’m going now. No point in staying if he’s not coming.”“I’ll come too,” said Susan, “I’m not really enjoying it.” She went in search of Karen, and found her in the kitchens.“Carol and I are going, Karen,” she told her. “Carol’s upset that John hasn’t arrived.”“I’m surprised she’s still going after him after what he did,” Karen said with.