"How?" She immediately realized she'd said the wrong thing. She should have said, "That's ridiculous." She wasn't out of the closet at work and she'd ...thought no one knew about her and Erica."Candy mentioned to me that you'd been propositioning her," said Alistair. Laura went red. She wanted to slap the little bimbo bitch. "I didn't..." is all Laura could say."Well, we wouldn't take her word alone," said Alistair, "so we checked your work email. You regularly email someone called Erica? And your. .Calm down...How the hell am I supposed to calm down?" She yelled again. This was supposed to be their time together after almost a year and now that 2 days out of a week were supposed to go waste, she was in no mood to calm down."You only got an 8-day vacation sanctioned, of which you would be travelling for 2 days and I get barely 6 days with you and now this!!" Mira said as tears welled up my eyes."Honey...relax...it is just a vacation...we can go later." He said and that pissed her off even. I knew that they had won the major contract that had brought everything to a head and that it would secure jobs for the short-term future assuming they had not all left to join us. However, with Mark back I hoped that he would not jeopardise those remaining by interfering with the specs as I still had friends amongst the workforce.When the annual returns came, they were far better than expected and way superior to the original plans. At a specially convened board meeting, held in the local pub. It seems Harry Alban had just been declared 'Student of the Year'.Bill had decided then. He hated Harry. Not content with being rich, super-popular, good-looking, a girl-magnet, team captain and star player, he had to be top of the classas well.Bill had written in HARRY ALBAN right there.He had now spent more than an hour gleefully contemplating what wordhe would use to take the Student of the Year down a peg or two.Tiny?Flatulent?Naked?Unlucky?Fake?Dickless?They were all good, but he wanted to.