Meggie. See you when you get back.”“Aye-aye, Sergeant Jack!”“That’s ‘Master Sergeant Jack’ to you, kid!”Meg stuck out a surprisingly l...ng, pink tongue, then flounced off down the hall.The pizza arrived. I paid and tipped the kid, then got out plates and napkins and put them on the breakfast table in the kitchen.“Soup’s on, Sis!”“Coming!”Meghan came into the kitchen barefoot, and still in her swimsuit, a very skimpy bikini. The triangular top – some shiny, stretchy material – was secured around. ”The smile was back on Mum’s lips, but not, I noticed, in her eyes. Alison walked around the table and hugged her.“Love you, Mum,” she said, “we all do.”“I know sweetheart,” Mum replied, “and I’m sorry if I’ve been a moody cow for the past while, but it’s been a strain keeping it in, and we didn’t want to tell you until David got back, and we knew for definite how bad it was.”“So what happens next?” Alison asked after she moved around the table and hugged Mum,” when do you go to the. When Carl was doing that, I almost thought that maybe I should make your wish come true and not take my birth control and fuck Carl every couple of days for a month! That would do the trick. But then, I start thinking about it and I am such a big chicken and I freaked out in Utah without my pills and so relieved when I didn’t end up pregnant after that week. And when I fucked Marcus that night and didn’t take my pills, I was so fucking scared that I would get pregnant and as much as I hate. “Oh. Sorry.” He watched the teen realise he wasn’t amused. “It was just in fun.”“Well it wasn’t fun for the rest of us.”“Oh.” She looked around. “There wasn’t any need to worry.”Freddie reached for her arm to help her in but she kicked with her feet and boosted herself in at the stern, over the plump side of the dinghy.“There was,” he told her. “You could easily get lost and drown doing that. You’re not easy to see. You swim till you’re tired then you have to swim back but the boat’s been.