The screaming video-head kids; the jobless wanderers; the aimless adults.As the last of them shuffled out the front door, I closed and locked it, retu...ned to the rear of the arcade, and turned off the lights. There was enough flickering illumination from all the video screens to get around, and I quickly walked a final round, clearing food wrappers and other visible rubbish from the surfaces, completely ignoring the litter covered carpet for now.Happy that the necessary cleanup had been. Ironic huh? Sleep and be a passengerin Pete's life, wake unsure who I am, shower with my eyes closed andhating the sensation, eat this bland hospital food, have my basketweaving sessions with you, same old physical work out with Gong wherehe kicks my butt, practice in the gymnasium, then a tasteless lunch,me time where I practice what I learned with Gong like crazy to avoidthinking, sawdust for dinner and then more practice till I'm exhaustedand drop into bed. Rinse. Repeat." We talked about. Naturally she was in a summer frock, as the front garden faced the lane, leading to the lake and popular with pick-nickers in the day and lovers later! They discussed the new schooling and the different school bus times, he apologised for his thoughtlessness on Monday evening, but she waved it away, saying “I had to endure worse to feed us when your dad was a youngster, it’s was bit sore to crap, but I will survive and we were not doing much back there for that day or two, but I`m ok now and I. ’ ‘Mine’s white with no sugar, but Linda does take sugar, two – I think. I’m Maddy, by the way, and that’s for Madeleine, not a comment on my sanity’ She smiled as she said it. ‘Been said before, uh?’ He poured milk into all three mugs, handed one to Maddy and spooned sugar into the other two. ‘I’m Nick, and it’s nice to meet you, even so unexpectedly.’ Just then the cottage shook to another roof rattling peal of thunder and they both instinctively ducked, then grinned at their own foolishness..