…He hardly noticed the girls dancing, trippy, but as one girl backed into him he grabbed her arm. ‘Hi,’ he mouthed and swung around her.

She twisted away, opened her mouth to insult him, but stopped. She stood motionless, mouth open.

Steven felt the break in the momentum and looked up.

Steven and Jenny had met…

…Wake up, sleepy heads,’ Carmella called from the doorway about ten thirty next morning. She came through with a tray of fruit juice and bowls of porridge, each with a glob of elderberry jelly melting on top. ‘There's only three of you? I thought there was an army setting up camp, the noise you made.’

The three sat up guiltily.

‘We're not hungry, Mum,’ Jen complained. ‘We need some more sleep.’

‘Geez, man, I am,’ Eddie exclaimed, taking a bowl while Steven groaned quietly from the searing pain in his arm.

‘What on earth's been going on?’ Carmella said, staring at his grey, tense face…