It was a glowing and comforting sight. Diane must have had a hundred tiny candles scattered around its perimeter and on her bed she had placed an over...ized fleece blanket. The room smelled of lavender and was just the right temperature for love making. “Please lay down on your back darling,” she told Dave, indicating with her wide eyes that he needed to sample the new blanket. So he did what he was told, reclining stiff as a corpse on Diane’s bed, his mind not quite comprehending what this all. "Parker may not let us run it, even next week. He kept the trouble last year out." Robbie nodded."Speaking of last year," Dan said, kneeling to get a closer look at something. "Should I be looking in the school, or outside?" Outside, I think," I said."The ones last year, well, two graduated, barely. And the other two were, uh, reasoned with. Even if they hadn't been, I don't think they would have done this," Robbie added.I was glad he didn't ask us any names, considering that last year's. He blushed and thought of refusing to leavethe house. But then he noticed Rebeccas coats hanging on the hallstand,and grabbed a rain coat which was quite long, a flowery rubberised fabricand a matching hat. He quickly put this on to avoid Amanda choosinganother. She had been upstairs to fetch a pair of low-heeled shoes, whichshe placed on the floor. "There we are, Pansy, nice shoes for the day,and I see you have chosen such a pretty coat. I was going to let you wearone of your own, but seeing. They couldn’t revive him. I am sorry my c***d your fathers dead.” The formidable lady had tears in her eyes. “I am so sorry to lose your other parent does not bare thinking about. Of course you don’t have to face going back into class and to be honest this late in the term we will let you go home straight away.”Home but to who, now both parents were dead her mother having died of cancer three years ago. No grandparents or that matter aunts and uncles she was now without family. The problem was.