And you are more sneaky than I thought," she chuckled, "When I tried to call and be sure that we could get in, they told me that it was too late, that...they were already filled up. So, just on a hunch, I asked if they had a reservation for 'McDonald', and sure enough, there was a reservation for a party of two."I just smiled back as the waiter seated us, Stephanie clinging to the yellow rose.For Valentine's Day, the lunch was a fixed price deal only, but that wasn't a problem, the food was. ‘Justice’ had taken its course and he’d spent two years at Her Majesty’s Pleasure – most of it, or course, in solitary for his own protection. Suki had done a bunk and was living ‘by the kindness of strangers’. By the time we met she was of age and no longer of concern to the ‘Care’ system. From what she said I was pretty sure she wouldn’t have protested had I tried to deepen a relationship with her. My, doesn’t that sound ... priggish? Let’s just say she was attractive and appeared receptive.. Dad’s plan left that section of land over the tunnel as a small public park, and because the sea access was deep, the ground above was stable. He had put a ring road around the lake leaving a second park around the foreshore, and the roadway was wide enough for parking, so it remained a public lake.The quarter-acre blocks on the seafront would be worth a few bob and even the properties along the access road and around the lake would be attractive to own. Ryan studied the plans, and he smiled at. I sit at the corner wondering what the hell I’m going to do. When I see headlights behind me, I tense thinking it’s the cops. It’s not though, its Nikki’s car. She drives up into her drive-way and I think she’ll head inside, but she doesn’t. She comes towards me, and I roll down my window. She asks me what I’m doing sitting in my car at two in the morning. Before I can answer, she knows because I smell of alcohol. She tells me to pull my car up into her garage, and get inside before a cop.