You’re a godsend, Ms. Baines,” I said as I rolled to accept my morning libation.“Who?” demanded Elizabeth, standing beside the bed and looking...as if she was ready to pour the coffee over my head.“Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!” I screamed, scuttling to the far side of the bed. “Darling! When did you get here?”“Apparently, not soon enough. Who is this hussy you were expecting to bring you coffee in bed?” she yelled.“It’s not what you think!” I called back. That sounded lame even to me. “Ms.. It was good enough for me: I was dating a girl, and a pretty one at that. I didn’t care what we did, as long as we did it together. There were other things I’d have liked to do together, but it was early days. Little did I know how far away those ‘things’ would be. Over the meal it transpired that she was going home for Christmas the following Wednesday. She lived near Chester, about forty miles away, so of course I volunteered to drive her, and of course, after some rather contrived reluctance. They walked holding hands. The souk was not as crowded as the one in Casablanca and did not cater to tourists as much. Chase stopped and bought a couple of oranges and they ate them as they walked around. They stopped at a small outdoor café and had mint tea served in little ornate glasses. Clare’s eyes flew into enormous circles when she first sipped the hot tea, ‘My God! I didn’t realize it would be so sweet!’ Chase laughed at her expression, ‘It is that. It’s about half mint, half water, and. After about an hour we took a seat at a table in the back to talk. No one was looking as hot as we wanted so we just drank a few more beers. We decided to go back to his place to watch some tv and have a few more drinks. Being nicely buzzed as we drove to his place we talked about a girl that was sitting by herself at the bar but she looked like she wanted to be alone. She had a nice body. We kept talking about what each of us would do with her as we opened his door and stumbled in laughing.