At the same moment he lost his balance and was pulled off by the furious ticket collector and by Mazeroux, who bellowed:"Why, you're mad, Chief! you'l... kill yourself!" Let go, you ass!" roared Don Luis. "It's they! Let me be, can't you!"The carriages filed past. He tried to jump on to another footboard. But the two men were clinging to him, some railway porters came to their assistance, the station-master ran up. The train moved out of the station."Idiots!" he shouted. "Boobies! Pack of asses. Mike came to us and called the others to keep quiet while he introduced us and pointed out that this was our first ever party and to go easy with us. Debbie just said, 'Take no notice of him, no holds barred tonight please'. everyone laughed and then two lovely women came over and took Debs away while a couple of guys came over to me. There was a sound of a knocking of a spoon on a gals and Mike shouted, 'Right guys and gals, let the party roll!'the sound of stripping took over and when I. I hurriedly waved goodbye to my mother before jogging over to Miss Davies, who was flicking through a folder."Now Rob, I'm afraid Carlos, who you were going to be staying with, has had to pull out of the exchange at the last minute." Oh, that's a shame" I said politely, whilst in actual fact I was quite looking forward to staying with one of my friends' exchanges. "So, I suppose I'll have to stay with Mark then?" I said hopefully."No, I'm afraid that house is full, but luckily we've managed to. You got off easy David, and if you let it, being a girl can be quite fun." "Can we stop calling me David? At least in public?" "Why? It is your name after all." "Look at me mom. Calling me David only makes it worse. Okay, so I'm a girl now. There's nothing I can do about it, so why not call me something less." "Masculine?" "Yes." "What did you have in mind dear?" "Diane. Call me Diane mom." I turned my head just then, and missed the sly smile that came to my mothers face. I had four more.