Donna couldn’t see her, but noticed several girls group in with the crowd of boys. She had a long-neck beer bottle in her right hand, and took a sma...l sip from it.She was sitting on the small single bed; the overhead light was on as was the table lamp. Donna, looking down hazily, realized that her dark blue skirt was wadded up high around her waist. To make matters worse, she saw her tangled ecru-coloured panties wrapped around her left ankle, and it didn’t seen to matter one iota.There were. The boy was being flirted with inearnest."We ought to go there and cut in," Jake suggested."That's not a very good idea. We don't want anyone else to see our facesand think we're the people we regrettably look like. If those two startgetting too cozy, I'll call her cell." And if that doesn't work?" I'll go over and tell her she has to come with us. You stay here and guardthe antidote." Okay. Sounds like a plan."In the end, our intervention was not required. Dawn glanced over hershoulder,. " I miss her too, Daddy. I still expect to see her in a room when I gointo it. I still expect to hear her tell me off for doing somethingwrong." She just wants...wanted you to do things right. It was her way. Istill can't get used to talking about her in the past tense. It's notfair. None of it is. You didn't know about the ring. Your sisterdidn't know about her girlfriend. I didn't act like a father andprotect my family." You have the harder job. Mum did the easy thing. Now you have. "Yes, Kerry," Paula replied. "Give me a moment." She slipped her pyjama's on and I hid under my sleeping bag whilst looking for my shorts. Making sure no one could see any evidence of our illicit coupling Paula unzipped the door only to give a gasp of shock. "Kerry! Your face, what's wrong?" It just feels funny and puffy, Mum," Kerry replied almost in tears.I'd found my shorts by now and slipped them on and came out the opposite side of the door to Paula.Kerry looked utterly woebegone; her.