Tonight was just an idea I had andit seems you have made a new friend thanks to Joann."We heard the door as my dad got home just as mom finished remov...ng allthe makeup. We left the bathroom and I said good night to both my folksand headed off to bed. It had been a long day for me but I couldn't gostraight to sleep. I lay there reflecting back on the afternoon andevening for a long time. Eventually I did manage to get to sleep.Chapter 2The next morning everything was back to normal. I got. ‘what do you want’ Alexis spat when she finally saw who it was ‘ I came to see if you were alright. I saw my father’s goons bring you in and he told me what happened’ he said gently easing his tall frame down next to her. ‘yeah right like you didn’t already know. I’m only 19 and I’m already being married off!’ she yelled at him wiping another tear from her face. ‘Alexis it’s going to be alright I promise’ he said wiping her face with his hand ‘how do you know it’s going to be alright Jeydon?’. After a hurried breakfast, punctuated by people knocking on the kitchen door asking for Sunday papers, milk, eggs butter and the like.Bev sold those things during the summer. "Out here, if there's a captive market you have to tap into it," Bev explained. "I've got an arrangement with the nearest village store."Then it was all hands down to cleaning the pub and restocking the bar for "Sunday's bash" as Bev termed opening hours. I was introduced to old Bert when he turned up; it was surprising,. “Here, you never know if you need sunglasses or a sled!”“That’s what makes it so interesting here,” Susan said. “I don’t suppose you found my necklace, did you?”“No. I don’t think I’ve found anything of yours here,” I said. A little too subtle for her to get, I think.“What are you going to do with the computers?”“Oh, Georgia locked them all with an unbreakable password,” I lied. “I’m in the process of wiping them all and they’ll be picked up next week by an electronic chop shop where they will.