It was just a blind date. I wasn't getting married that very evening. As I watched the flecks of rain on the window and the lights from the many night...clubs I started to get that yucky feeling. My sister pulled up into the layby outside the restaurant and handed me £30."Take it I want to make sure you can treat the lady to enough drinks" She said. I looked at my sister and smiled. "Thank you Zoe. I'll try and make sure that I will. Everything will be fine" I said in a delicate tone. I was still. Holly had three bites left on her plate and she decided to get herattention. "Holly, can you take three more big girl bites for Mommy?"Holly looked down at the fork that had speared the fish and resignedlyopened her mouth for the bite. Two more later and she said, "All gone!" All gone," Holly agreed like a real baby would.She really had been doing a great job of behaving like an actual baby. Ifanything, she was a little too good of a baby. She'd have to get her tounderstand squirming and. It was Monday and I got to Fred’s early morning we had a brew and a catch up then we set off to mine mid-morning , we had been driving about 30 mins when Fred asked me about Jackie I said she is fine, he then said when my mom was alive he was talking to her and she said Jackie and you were having troubles in the bed department, I was shocked by this and said we are fine thank you, he then said your mom said she didn’t do the nice things a women can do to you, as that changed, I told him to mind. I mean you never call, you never write and you never send me flowers.”Julie was about to die from trying not to laugh out loud.After a short silence, the phone almost came apart from Frank’s next comments.“Sam, you SON-OF-A-BITCH,” he yelled, “Why the hell do you have my daughter’s phone and where the hell is my daughter?”Julie and I both lost it!Julie finally recovered enough to gasp out, “Here, Dad, I’m here!”“And where the hell is HERE!” he demanded.“We are in Helen, Dad,” she answered, then.
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