I needed a shower and told Donnie I’d meet him later in the TAB, which was only just across the road and up a little from Three Steps.
“No worries,” he said, “they’ve already started racing in New Zealand and I have my cash roll on me.” He said goodbye and backed out of his seat and left.
“Feel like another coffee?’ Anh asked and I nodded and she went to the counter and ordered them.
“I liked you straight away,” Anh said to me. “As soon as I looked at you I knew you’d be OK, that we might become friends.”
“Uh-huh. And hey, what’s that white scar on your lip?”
“I had a cleft lip and I was getting teased at school so my dad paid for an operation to fix it. It was always going to happen, but the doctors said to leave it for later on but I started school and…”
“It looks OK. Makes you… un
