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"See you later then?" Edge said, watching Bec slowly walk up the front steps of the boarding house.
"Yep". She flashed him a smile, as he disappeared into the darkness.
Bec fished her keys out of her pocket and unlocked the front door, as all the lights were off. She stepped into the house, abandoning her bag and shoes, heading quietly into the kitchen.
"Hi Bec!" Bridget said cheerfully.
Bec leaped about a foot into the air. "Bridget!" she cried. "You scared me!"
Bridget grinned. "Sorry. If you weren't so jumpy then I wouldn't have a problem, would I? How was the date?"
"Why aren't you in bed?" she questioned right back.
"Never answer a question with a question". Bridget grinned cheekily. It was one of Bec's sayings, and she used it often.
"Why aren't you in bed?" Bec repeated.
"I was thirsty?" she answered weakly.
There was an explosion of giggling from the lounge room.
"Loren. Cassie. Are you two thirsty as well?" Bec asked, pretending to be annoyed, as the other two girls came into view.
"Yes?" Cassie said, sounding more like she was asking a question rather than answering one.
Adam, Guy and Garry followed the girls out of the lounge room.
"Oh, God, this is like my teenage years all over again", Bec said with a groan. Whenever she was out with a boy, date or not, her parents and two brothers would wait up until she came home. She saw right through them- there was only so many cattle documentaries a person could watch. "Is date watch a team sport now?"
"Yep". Garry nodded. "You and the kids do it when I'm out with Ashleigh!"
"So?" Bec asked, not seeing the point.
"I'm just repaying the favour". Garry smiled. "So, tell us! How is the boyfriend?"
"Whoa, back up!" she held up her hands. "Okay, first, he's not my boyfriend. Second, it wasn't a date. Third, why aren't you lot in bed?"
"First, he is the boyfriend, second, it was a date, and third, it's a Saturday night and they're sixteen years old", Garry answered. "I don't know about you, but I'd prefer them be awake at home then be out partying".
"You sound like my father!" Cassie complained.
"True". She shrugged. "What have you been up to?"
"We played pool", Guy said, "And Bridget sucked worse than usual!"
Cassie whacked him. "Be nice!"
"Sorry", he said automatically.
"And we were playing Wii games", Adam finished.
"Wii Sports champion!" Garry yelled, pumping his fist in the air. Bec had to laugh- Garry was soooooo modest.
"No, seriously, how was the date?" Bridget wanted to know.
The girls weren't going to leave her alone until she gave them the details. And she wasn't going to give them the details.
"What time is it?" she wanted to know.
"You made it back from the ball just in time, Cinderella", Cassie said. "It's five to twelve".
Bec blushed. "We went for a walk, okay?"
"Where?" Bridget persisted.
"Who wants a Milo?" she asked, ignoring Bridget.
"Me!" Guy screamed. "And do we still have those biscuits that Adam was eating?"
"I wasn't eating any biscuits", Adam said, confused. "We don't even have any biscuits!"
"Oh wait, that was me. And I think I ate them all... never mind!" Guy giggled sheepishly.
"Come on, who wants to verse the king?" Garry asked.
"Me!" Adam cried.
Laughing, Bec and the girls retreated into the kitchen. Bec took out the milk, and Loren reached into the cupboard for the Milo. Bridget leaned on the bench, her head in her hands.
"Tell us how it really was, please?"
Bec laughed. "You really are persistent, aren't you?"
"You're like the older sister I've never had!" Cassie stuck her bottom lip out. "Big sisters are meant to tell their little sisters everything!"
"You're like the sister we've never had!" Loren cried, speaking for Bridget and herself. They only had brothers (Loren had a twin and Bridget had three, one older and two younger. Cassie had three younger sisters).
"God, Garry thinks your innocent", Bec murmured. The girls grinned at her, keeping up the 'innocent' act. "Nothing happened, I swear. And Cassie, you don't tell your sisters anything!"
"Then why are you blushing?" Bridget sang. "And she doesn't, I know".
"I do too!" Cassie yelped. "Sixteen year olds aren't meant to tell little snoops anything. And they're little snoops".
"You are too sweet for your own good Bridget", Bec told Bridget. She poured enough milk for seven mugs of Milo into the saucepan that was sitting on the stove, and handed Cassie a wooden spoon. "Stir".
"Only if you tell us the details".
Bec sighed. "We ate dinner, we ate dessert, and went for a walk on the beach- why are you lot running around in shorts? It's so cold!".
"Aw", Loren sighed. "He gave you his jacket, didn't he? That's so sweet!"
"Loren, back up!" Bec laughed. "Nothing happened- not really, anyway".
"Not really?"
Bridget's, Cassie's and Loren's eyes bulged so far out of their head Bec was afraid they were going to land on the floor.
"Nothing", she assured them, a smile on her pretty features. "I absolutely swear".
The girls rolled their eyeballs back into their heads and Cassie resumed stirring the milk. Bec stuck her head into the pantry, ferreting around for the Arnotts Family Pack she had bought earlier that day.
"Oh, and guess what?" she added.
"Yeah?" Bridget asked, placing the mugs onto the tray they rarely used.
"Anna and Joe set the date for their wedding!" Bec was a lot more excited than she had been when Joe had first told her.
"That's awesome!" Loren cried.
"I know!"
"Is our Milo ready?" Garry called.
Cassie stirred the bubbling milk even faster. "Almost!"
"We're coming!" Loren added. Cassie handed her the saucepan and the resident chef (Loren) poured the milk into the mugs. Bridget, the most coordinated of the girls, balanced the tray carefully as she carried it into the lounge room.
Bec sat down next to Garry, tucking her legs under herself, and leaned back to observe the 'family'. Adam and Guy were battling it out on Mario Kart, while Bridget and Cassie egged them on. Loren was leaning back on the chair, staring at the screen without seeing it- their little dreamer girl, Garry called her. Garry was laughing hysterically at Adam's pathetic attempts to beat Guy, and Cassie was shrieking.
