She was seeing a counselor back home. What’s wrong?”“She and I had a bit of a tiff this morning and her friends are concerned because they haven...��t seen her since.”“Tiff? As in a lover’s quarrel?”“Not the way you mean,” I replied. “Angie and I weren’t a couple, but she seems to have thought we were, and told her best friend we were.”“You weren’t involved at all with her?”“We’re friends, I gave her rides to church, and she ran with me in the mornings. I drew the line at praying together or any. I had done a couple of jobs for her as I had to do all the maintenance on all the apartments. Part of the deal. I hung some curtains on the new rails she wanted installed. I erected some flat pak furniture which she had bought. Katherine was her name, she had only been in the apartment for a couple of weeks when she disappeared for a month most of May. Funny apartments, upside down, bedrooms downstairs and living area upstairs to get a great view over the beach. Below was a largish hotel owned. They’d arrived fiveminutes ago. It was now a waiting game. Vicky and Carlawere two hot-blooded sisters who went to the sameschool as Tommy. And because Tommy was the new guy, theother guys had warned him that if they were ever afterhis arse, to simply run and hide because the two hot-blooded sisters would not let up until they got whatthey wanted. They would eat him alive. As usual, Tommythought the guys were wildly exaggerating, as theyalways seemed to universally be about innocent. "You wrote it with your left hand! So romantic!" and she looked at him dreamy eyed. He laughed loudly, and so did everyone else. Then he sobered up."I don't think I laughed at all while Cassie was looking after me. She had a hard time, a very hard time. I really put her through it." Well, you're here now, and I'm sure she'll forget all about that," Mairead said, patting his shoulder. "Oh, there's the car arriving. Everybody out! Disappear!"Ged was left alone. It was not excitement he felt, it.