"Present – Liz – In the equipment roomI am highly impressed with Ivan's drawing as Ben and the wolf looked so real - the kid really has a gift. My...guess is it comes from Masha and not Jack. Jack doesn't strike me as being very artistic.I am more than slightly annoyed that Maria is being such a bitch about things. Hell, Ivan is a great kid - so he pranked her, big fucking deal. I decide I am going to have a little talk with her so I ask, "Maria, can you and I talk?"She's finished looking at. "And some of us are trying to get laid," said Tommy, jerking his zipper closed. April giggled insanely."Do that shit later," said Susan, not the least bit scandalized. "Josh is here and he brought Steve Walker with him. They've got this class in regional history together." Isn't Steve the kicker on the football team?" asked Tommy."Yeah, he's got a paper due Monday on the Fuquari Rock so he wants to go up there so he can take pictures and stuff." The Fuquari Rock was a boulder on the local. But nether of them looked happy.I looked at my watch before taking Zoe's hand again. A little after eleven. I didn't have gymnastics until three. Almost four hours."It occurs to me that you've never had a tour of the house," I said as we started back."I've been to your house lots of times. I spent the night there in November." Yeah, but you've never had the official tour."Zoe gave me the you're-weird-look, but didn't put it into words.We walked to the house. Inside, I took her jacket and hung. Donal maintained his public transport journey by waiting in the drizzle for the bus. An hour and a half later he had arrived on the far side of the island and walked the mile back to his rental cottage overlooking a quiet sandy bay. Not one other house had been built here. Why? Well there had been the mine field after the war, even after clearing it, some kept turning up; it seemed that rabbits had buried them deeper sometimes and then they would suddenly re-surface. Builders stayed.