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Karaoke
Lucy, wanting to freshen up before she went to the pub for karaoke, parted ways with Tarquin at the turning to The Lighthouse Keeper and headed back to the holiday park. Her parents, clearly exhausted after the day’s endeavours, were slumped on the sofa in front of a Christmas movie playing on low volume. Both were snoring loudly, the dregs of two glasses of port and a half eaten kebab on the coffee table in front of them. Lucy smiled as she tugged down her dad’s shirt where it had risen up over his belly, then fetched a blanket from a cupboard and laid it across them.
‘Night night,’ she whispered, letting her gaze linger on them for a few seconds.
It was just after nine o’clock, so Lucy took a shower, changed her clothes, and drank a quick coffee—the taste boosted by some s
