Next time I plan something like this I'm going to get to ride in the car with them, I thought as the girls began giggling again. The doors slammed shu... and Rosa started the car and launched them on the first lap of the ring road.I hadn't truly contemplated how long it would take to complete a lap of the ring road. I'd sort of imagined it would be five minutes and the girls would be back ready for the next step. As it was I was still waiting twenty minutes after they'd driven away and was. "Roger's working," I informed them, "Maybe later after we've seen the sights and he's freaked out at seeing a baby born, I'll chain him to one of you for comfort." We'll hold you to that," a large woman who looked to be near the end of her fertile life chuckled, "He can even have a soothing suckle and some milk he hasn't had since he was born."Matron re-joined us. "Sorry," she apologised, "I got called away. Don't take too much notice of the ladies; they haven't seen a man for a couple of days. .’ Viv cut in as she started to reach over to take the box of cereal away from Katie. But she stopped with her hand wavering in midair. She couldn’t do it. She just couldn’t do it. She’d known the woman was following along behind them down the grocery store aisles, and she could understand now that the woman had seen how few items Viv had taken off the shelf and how desperately she’d looked through her fistful of coupons trying to match necessities with would she could stretch her money to. No, she just sounded AMUSED, hell maybe even a little aroused.“Don’t worry,” she went on, “I really am not mad. Obviously, you know I am not the most faithful myself. If you can keep my dirty little secrets why can’t I keep yours?”I knew her better than to feel relieved right now. She had something up her sleeve yet. I could tell by that look on her face. She was the cat; I was the canary and she had me right where she wanted.“Do you remember those nights at the sorority house? The ones with.