" Uh huh." Gimmee a break, Jenn." Of course you can bring her, Dave. I am the last person in the world who would want someone left alone on Christmas.... Thank you. See you tomorrow." They hung up and Dave looked around the room. "Well, that seemed to work." Told you so," Hayley said.The four settled in for a quiet night at home. When Emily and Hayley were ready for bed, Emily came over and asked where she should sleep."In your bed."Emily smiled, kissed his cheek, and said "I knew you couldn't do. “Please sit down you two, this is Mrs. Broderick,” said the principle. Freddy was stunned she was too young to be Jake’s mom although she did have the looks to be related to him. She had long black hair a beautiful but a tad stern and bitchy face. She had long legs and while a little hard to tell underneath the pantsuit a decent size chest. “I wanted to call you to down here to talk about a little incident that we had earlier today.” The principle continued. “Can you…”“I’m just telling you two. ' That signalled the end of the game and the participants righted the furniture and began bellowing for more drinks.Phillip weaved his unsteady way back to the bell tent he shared with another 'new boy, ' an Irish lieutenant named Jamie Flanagan who was universally known as 'Seamus.' Seamus Flanagan had transferred to the RFC, like Philip, from the infantry. He was small and dark with a pencil moustache but, despite his size, seemed to have a limitless capacity for alcohol. He caught Phillip up. 'Eight minutes.' he said annoyed. He pulled me up from my knees by my arm, pushed me onto the stairs on all fours and proceeded to remove my jeans. I suddenly remembered, that I'm not exactly wearing dating knickers, but I needn't have worried, as they flew off me, as if I had never been wearing them, landing on the stairs, in a just-dropped-absentmindedly-during-my-morning-madness-minutes-rush style. I tried to crawl upwards, towards the bedroom in a childish futile attempt to escape his.