REBECCA
I held back a giggle as I finished vacuuming the bedroom: the diabolical plan for Reiner's birthday was going perfectly.
Since we had woken up that morning, we all had been acting as if it were just an ordinary day - and I could see how it was upsetting him. During breakfast he had alternately a look of hope and shock, because no one was even considering what day it was.
The children, in particular, were surprising me: I thought they would either forget about the prank or get too excited to celebrate their dad's birthday to keep it up, but instead ... oh, they were two little devils.
Having finished the bedroom, I moved on to the living room and kitchen: and it was there that I caught my mate snooping around. He was absolutely absorbed in his activity, so much so that he didn
