Jacqui, Brain and Anna were sprawled out on the living room floor watching re-runs of old movies, gorging themselves on packets of chips they had found in one of the kitchen cupboards. Blair was at the table working on his laptop.
“Hey Blair, what happened to that colleague of yours? We are starving.”
“Damned if I know. I’ll phone her and ask.”
A minute or two passed and finally Blair gave up.
“She is not answering her cell phone, she may still be in the store or on her way here. If she does not arrive within the next fifteen minutes or so I’ll contact dispatch and find out where she is.”
“You should have asked a man to do the shopping, then we would have been eating already.”
“My apologies Brian, next time I’ll know better.” Blair laughed and turned back to his task.
“I’ll go get
