For the next hour we danced, talked and had another drink. He told me his parents had a villa not far away and that he spent all the summer on the isl...and. He was seventeen and hadn’t made up his mind what he wanted to do the following year after graduating.Mike walked me back to the hotel room but left me a few yards before it in case my dad was watching. I liked him and we decided to meet up the following day on the beach. That night, alone in my bed I knew I wanted to go further with Mike, I. There was just so much expectation around ... at least for me ... we'd both got into expecting that somehow we were going to get together – that it would all be really simple and easy and stuff – and, somehow, it just hasn't been. I mean, since her ex-partner died, she's been up here, then I was in hospital, then we had the Big Crisis meeting and ... well, after that it was all going to be OK, wasn't it?"I paused while Kath waited, looking a trifle exasperated, thinking back to the evening we'd. "Yeah, I guess so." Then it will be the same with her life." He placed his hands on mysmall shoulders and turned me to face the mirror again. "You have everymemory Alexandra had in your head now. You have access to all of hermemories. You will be able to summon the answer to any question shewould be able to answer. Who her friends are. Her parents. How to walkand talk as she did. Additionally, you will also have every memory ofyour former life." So, I'm not getting my other memories, the ones I. Freedom... wouldn't be too immediately obvious. "You wouldn't believe what I just saw in the loo..." It's a party, Darling! I'd believe practically anything," Laurie laughed.I couldn't help but laugh along. I returned to the spot where I was before going to the loo, very close next to Laurie. "Thank you for waiting for me," I smiled and kissed her cheek."Something in the back of my head said that I should..." she kissed me back, and soon we were again snogging like school k**s under the.