It was a summer afternoon and we had finished school. We started walking home and Hannah finished drinking from the two-litre bottle of water she had....She is a very health conscious girl and always drank loads of water. Her mom is a nutritionist had something to with it I guess.“Gracey,” she said to me, looking a bit awkward. “I need to pee. Fuck, it's like I’m going to burst.”I laughed, she had obviously drunk too much water. We walked a bit further and she pulled me into an alley and around. The background information out of the way: It was the first week of August. Elizabeth’s rent was over due. Beth still owed me for June and July. Beth promised me a check on Friday for both months rent. We both work the day shift 7-3 and have weekends off. It was hot and sticky that Friday, the temperature in the nineties. At the last minute, I was mandated to work eight hours unscheduled overtime on the 3-11 shift. I telephoned Elizabeth and told her I was working a double. I instructed Beth. You have warmed up your machine and statistically it is probably ready to pay off just like this one, so I’m taking advantage of you a little.’ Darla answered, ‘But you are putting twenty dollars into the pot and I am only putting in ten. That’s a good deal for me. I’ll do it partner.’ I grabbed one of those ubiquitous plastic cups that are synonymous with slot machines and put in the forty quarters I had just won plus added another forty quarters. Darla put in her forty quarters as I thought,. Still, I learned by doing and by the end of the third month I was ready to return to work in the real world and begin the job of ferreting out a possible traitor in the Department.Róisín of course was delighted when I showed up, we had been in communication of course but my training along with the going over of various reports on failed or poorly successful missions had kept me at Morgana's Manse far longer than I expected and yes, we missed each other physically if not mentally.The office.