"He cut the wheel hard to make a fast left turn onto Taylor and ran head on into the front end of a truck that was double parked while it was being un...loaded. I was tossed forward, but I got my forearms up in time for them to take the hit from the mesh screen that separated the front of the car from the back, but Franks and Mason weren't as lucky. Both of them had gone forward and their heads had hit the windshield.I shook my head to clear it and then noticed that the crash had sprung the rear. She started oh, oh, ohing too so I must have been doing something she liked. It made my dicky stiff which had them both watching it like it was frightening. Aunty explained that “men and women so they don’t waste goo on furniture and things, and make a mess, either have it in mouths or ladies can absorb it inside them, so perhaps I should like to put it in mum, down that hole I saw just now, and she would like that for a change.” I asked if mummy would like that, and Aunty said she would “but. ’ ‘Gee, thanks,’ I said. And I pressed the Call End button. ‘It seems that we have been abandoned.’ ‘Abandoned?’ Eloise said. ‘Brian and your friend …’ ‘Janey.’ ‘Yes. Janey. They’ve gone to look at flats. And they’re probably not coming back. Well … not today, anyway.’ Eloise briefly frowned – as if she was having difficulty in making sense of it all. But then her smile returned and she shrugged her shoulders. ‘Oh well … in that case I’d better buy you a drink. What was it? Pedigree?’ A few. " I asked."I asked the same thing. All she said was that if she knew your father at all, convincing you to stay would be no sweat," she replied, sitting herself in one of the two guest chairs of the office.Her mother's assumption about me made me a little ticked, and I guess it showed because Julie sort of got this defensive look on her face that showed she knew I was upset."Look, all that is over and done with. Your here for six months, so let's try to make the most of it," she said, extending.