“Sure sweetie, take your time, what did you want to ask?”, “umm…well…”, she took a big breath and a torrent of words gushed from her, I managed to get the gist of it, her parents were going up to the city to some function and wouldn’t be home until the morning, she was asking if she could stay with us as she hated being alone at night…and her parents knew Tina and co was with me “Of course you can sweetie, I’ll head over now and pick you up”, she replied that she could ride her bike over as it wasn’t far, “no sweetie, I insist, I want to meet your parents first”, see you in ten or fifteen minutes…bye”. XXX “Firstly, it wasn’t stupid, they were a lovely gift which I appreciated greatly,
