Ignoring that the film was The Wizard of Oz Mandy looked at Maisie, averting her eyes from Jack, ‘Was he not glassed in a pub fight?’
The Wizard of Oz‘Is that what he told you?’
She looked taken aback, and not for the first time that evening, ‘Err, no, it’s what is said. I’ve known Jack for nine years, well, you never ask do you, and that is what I thought, or was told.’ She felt nervy, the ground shifting below her feet, which was the Isle of Wight ferry leaving.
‘Darlin", I’ll cut a long story short,’ and Maisie put her fat arm around Mandy’s shoulders, very familiar, and Mandy stiffened.
‘Please, Maisie.’
‘Shut-it, Jack,’ Maisie’s watery eyes looked directly at Mandy. ‘Dottie would’ve been twelve,’ Fatso nodded. ‘A serial r****t was attacking young girls in Portsmouth and Jack was
