We could see the dark clouds looming in the distance heading towards us once again as Wayne found a place and backed the car into an entrance to a far...er’s field where, for the first time, we got into the back on my suggestion. There was a warm, red fluffy blanket covering the seat. We kissed and Wayne ran a hand under my dress and up my leg he discovered I had no knickers on, I replied “he’d taken his time to find that one out!” I had them in my pocket as I’d taken them off just before. You can always distinguish the poor kids from the middle kids in Catholic grammar schools. The have-nots wear stiff socks that are hand washed every single night in the sink and dried on the oven doors in the morning, the socks lose their elasticity from the washing and linger around the ankles all stretched out leaving cold bare white legs turning blue and big knees. You can spend your days pulling your socks up to your knees but eventually you just forget about them. The blue plaid jumper. "What?"Mel took a deep breath. It felt like she was about to take anothermajor step forward. In a way, a slightly frightening step. She lookedat Chad, he was waiting. But she felt like she needed a more formal wayto put across what she wanted to tell him. Just standing there with himas she was felt all wrong. She walked over and sat in the chair andpointed to the floor in front of her. "Kneel down."Feeling more trepidation than ever, Chad did as he was told and kneeledin front of her.Mel. Didn't those kids who went to Public school do any shagging?Once Snuffy and I had volunteered for all three duty days all that remained was for the rest of the lads to work out who was going to do what hours on duty. Not how the Guards do it, but Green Jackets are different.As I walked back from the platoon office with Wurzel, making for the canteen, he suddenly said,"I'm going to move in with Cindy." That was a bit of a surprise but what followed really astounded me. "I want to spend a family.