Red Alert (23 page)

They were both so excited now at the mere idea of it all, they couldn’t sleep for what seemed an age. Eventually, happily exhausted, sleep overcame them.

The street was closed, from under the library all the way past the Newbery Tower and the Mackintosh building, to allow for the celebrations.

There was a small stage set up and a local indie band was blasting out music, the raucous guitar riffs bouncing off the stately walls of the Mackintosh façade. A group of students bounced around in a heaving mass in front of the band. One of the girls had jumped from the stage and was crowd-surfing, held aloft on a raft of hands. Others filled the streets in small groups, singing, dancing and generally letting their hair down. Drink flowed freely and there was a pungent sweet aroma wafting on the breeze as some of the students lit up, with little regard to where they were.

Sandra flung her hands up high, her red hair a vivid curtain swinging about over her cavorting body.

Tommy was laughing uproariously and stumbling about, trying to keep up with Sandra.

Hamish kept swinging a joyous Betty off her feet, round and round and round, making her skirts fly up and reveal glimpses of her thong.

Kirsty and Greg had been invited and were joining in with as much wild abandon as everyone else.

Kirsty believed, as they all did, that this day was the beginning of freedom and a new, wonderful and fulfilling life.

‘Yeehah!’ somebody yelled and the sound echoed in everyone’s heart.

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First published 2008

by Black & White Publishing Ltd

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This electronic edition published in 2013

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ISBN: 978 1 84502 647 9 in Mobipocket format

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