"We are 1000 metres above the sea. But have no fear, miss," he continued. "There is a safety net and, if he should go over the side, I can retrieve hi... with a bill hook." Do you live on this ship?" she asked."Yes," he told her. "I have an apartment aft." Must be fabulous," she said, "to travel all over the world - exotic places. Seeing this view every morning..." Not every morning," he smiled. "Sometimes it's cloudy. Sometimes we travel through fog. There are high winds so it's difficult to. Leah is, well, I think you have an idea how she can be. I know you don’t want to spend Christmas Day with Tara and her mom so that rules out the Miles family. I don’t want you to spend Christmas alone.”Brock hugged Merie tightly.“I’ll be fine,” he said. “Last Christmas was spent in an 8-foot-by-10-foot room. I had food loaf for Christmas dinner because I was on restriction. Food loaf is where they toss your entire meal into a blender and you get the result. It is not appetizing. I promise I’ll. She slid into the first stall not checking to see if it was occupied. After closing the door, she stood and waited. She about peed herself when Ledger said, “Pardon me, but this stall is in use.”She turned and looked at the boy, no, a young man sitting on the commode looking utterly miserable. Now she knew the cause of the odor.“What the hell did you eat?” she asked quietly.“It was some bad ale. I have been sick since last night.” He grimaced as his stomach cramped again and more gas and liquid. I could already see the naughty look in her eye, and this made my heart pound even faster! I actually warned her at that point that she should be careful. We didn’t know the guy…and we couldn’t be sure he wasn’t some kind of wierdo murderer or something! In situations like this DJ scares the fucking life out of me with her behavior…and I just knew that this was going to turn into one of these times. She seems to get a massive thrill out of making me as nervous as hell by pushing the boundaries,.