She said we had to get changed straight after this lesson, during morning break."The Miss Stricker to whom Brigitte was referring was Bethany, my fian...ée. "Please don't swear, Brigitte," I warned calmly.Christine, an energetic tall full-chested tactile blonde, chipped in. "It's not fair. It's the last day of term! No-one else is wearing their uniform properly but she doesn't pick on them. I'd really like to get her back. She's such a cow!" she whined.For a reason I had never really understood,. It won't be any 'semipermanent' thing, either. It'll be for keeps!" I'm certainly glad to hear that," a soft voice spoke from behind him."I am, too. We were beginning to think you didn't like us, or something." Charis! Ahlenya! You're both supposed to be out on patrol!" We got back early." Ahlenya snuggled close beside him where he sat."And I'm glad we did," Charis added, sitting even closer by his other side. "Now that we know how you feel, we won't always have to be worrying about which one. Our first actual performance was to be at an away game at one of the other schools in the conference. The ball players were loaded up in one of the buses with all their equipment. The second bus was loaded with the band and their instruments. That left the third bus for my girls and some of their parents. Also a couple of the teachers who had helped at practice sessions showed up so we almost filled the bus. Great turn-out for the first game of the season. The two teachers ushered the girls to. Red lights to the mysterious girl appeared to be just another piece of illumination rather than something to be obeyed. Even at midnight, the Haudagain was busy. Not that seemed to bother the girl as she shot across it, gearbox still in fourth.After parking the car, the girl all but dragged him up to her flat. All thoughts of this being a windup, had finally been ruthlessly quashed. No sooner had her door shut, than she wrapped her arms tight around him again, carrying on from where they had.