" Thank you," Cassidy said."Thank you," Mackenzie copied."I want all of you to sleep here tonight so you can spend time practicing," I said."Sleep her...e?" questioned Mackenzie."I want you and the other four girls to be together all night so you and Cassidy know their parts. I'll have the furniture moved to the side. Think of it as a big slumber party. I'll even supply the pizza." Okay!" Mackenzie said.Both girls smiled. Like most people, they liked that idea of free pizza.I repeated the concept. She blushed and smiled. Avery never blushed, “Let me grab your stuff out of the trunk.”“My hero,” She faux-swooned.“Your servant,” He grumbled under his breath happily. She reopened and locked her door manually. The battery had long since died on his keys. He slammed down the trunk, her sixer of Corona on his fingers and her vodka tucked under his arm. Avery swung around and grabbed his other one with a big grin, “Careful, I could drop--”She grabbed the vodka, “Party ho!”“Is that your superhero. He offered, she said no. He got pissed and the drunk sardar got abusive. I stepped and pacified him and put him in his car. She had tears in her eyes. She then tried calling her boy-friend. He wouldn’t answer her calls. She asked me to drop her to his place. Through the journey she didn’t speak. She held on to me as she was riding pillion on my bike. When we reached his place, she asked me to wait so that she can check if he is around.She came back in a few mins red in face and tears rolling. ..did he…? never mind.”She started crying hysterically again.Melissa’s mother Janice came around the table and approached them. Liam went to stop her, but Jamie told him to leave her. Melissa stood and reached for her mother, but Janice slapped Melissa’s face. With anger and language neither Melissa nor Jamie had witnessed before,“How could you do this to Jamie. you stupid, stupid slut. Your idiot father’s too fucking blind when it comes to you, but I’ve known you were a whore before you met.