“He’s just so cool,” she added dreamily.“What happened next?” someone interrupted the girl’s wide-eyed dream.“Well, I hear someone yelli...g, and I think like, what the heck, and there’s this guy coming from behind, and bang! He practically pushes Alex away from the front of the freaking truck!” the girl said, now clearly excited. “And I’m like in total shock and Alex is basically rolling on the ground, but he doesn’t look that badly hurt, and bang again! The fire truck practically hits this. Aunt Juanita took another tack. “Now Shorty,” She said, “I ought to take a stick to you for being so mean to this sweet baby girl! You have to give her at least a hundred dollars for giving your old horse a retirement home.” “Aunt Juanita,” Angel said, “I don’t care if my horse is the slowest one out there, I’ll be proud to have a horse of my own to play on.” I bought into the game. “Don’t beat Uncle Shorty yet, Aunt Juanita, old Jim may have a little life in him!” “Juanita, you’re right,. Christian was a boy I hung out with and we were at a lose end and finished up back at my home, where mother's eyes lit up on seeing Christian and her boyfriend drew dirty looks on seeing himself being usurped sexually by a virgin boy.I took Christian into my bedroom away from the adults, who we could hear arguing, mostly him throwing a tantrum. Then there was a bang as the front door slammed shut and I jumped up and watched him skulk away to the pub.There was just the noise of the TV after that. "There's just one snag Eva; you have to join the staff, uniform and all."She thought that was hilarious and laughed all the way back to camp.The next few days were among the happiest I could remember. A team of our own engineers converted an old railway carriage for me as living quarters, so that I could be on site, I used my new rank to have another one brought up and sited next to mine for Eva and her brother. Together we begged, stole and borrowed enough furniture to furnish them both.She.