Chapter Five
The Tea Break
She Was a Buffet Rather Than a Dinner-for-Two Sort of Woman, Until She Met Her Soul Mate.
A few nights later, while Helmut was reworking his blog to match his radio piece, Red left for her first rehearsal with Derek, the new director.
Helmut was working on the idea of healing with erotic themes and nursery rhymes, while Red, her hair now organic red, was standing in the kitchen of the school mid panto rehearsal, pondering. She had been in that school many times thanks to her wayward children, but for once her pondering was not about her children.
Red had looked over her script a thousand times, memorising the words despite having a house full of teenagers. Red had perfected the art of switching off and could have memorised her lines in a hurricane. Schoolgir
