The Secret Garden
Glyn organised a get-together at his house. Through some kind of mis-understanding many people thought it was a party and thus expected more than they received.
When I arrived the only people there were Glyn, John and Moreland. John excitedly told me about a Secret Garden. He made me follow him out of Glyn’s garden onto the main road. He took me to a house which was “For Sale“. It was a semi-detatched and the ajoining house was occupied.
We went into the back garden which was like a crazy jungle-maze. I have to admit that it was pretty cool but I was slightly nervous about the whole affair. We returned to the house.
Fallen Idle,Beer Towers and Outrageous Flirting
When we got back Pete had arrived and had let Jordan in, along with two of Glyn’s ex-girlfriend’s friends, Abby and Natty. After a short while SFFI arrived and dropped a copy of the Evening Post. In it was a review of Fallen Idle’s EP. It wasn’t flattering.
As Abby and Natty were the only girls there, manye people were accused of wanting them. It was pretty clear who did want one of them though. With his outrageous flirting, many people were commenting on it, much to his and her embarrassment.
While all this was happening, a tower of beer bottles and cans was being constructed. Check the photos to see it.
Abuse
Sam arrived and decided to abuse Abby and, to a lesser extent, Natty. He is surprisingly influential so a lot of other people joined him.
Moreland who was clearly quite drunk started rapping about Abby. One line that stood out was:
“Abby, she’s really shabby“
He also shouted at her in a very sarcastic tone that she was “a really cool person“.
Next Door
By around 12, the next door neighbour, Alan, got quite annoyed. He came out of the house and got quite angry, saying that he put up with it last week but he wouldn’t again.
Schmitt stood up and walked over to him and told him to watch his manners and that he needn’t be so aggressive. Schmitt told us all to go inside, and being the leader he is, he was obeyed.
Bingham
We then decided to go for a walk into Bingham to get some food. We left the house and one of us noticed a face in the window.
Glyn’s next door neighbour, Alan, was in the window of his house with all the lights off glaring at us. Everyone was in a mixed state of fear and hilarity.
SFFI, Mikey and Pete were playing football in the streets and Mikey managed to boot it into someone’s garden. They walked around precautiously while me and Sam shouted at them through the fence.
After that we decided to stop off at the Secret Garden as a few of us hadn’t seen it yet. In the dark the garden was much more frightening than before. We left eagerly.
We went into Bingham and got a Chinese take-away and then back to Glyn’s.
Homeward Bound
When we got back we heard that Moreland had thrown up on Glyn’s bed and had locked himself in the bathroom.
Natty was saying that Abby and herself had nowhere to stay. She asked me where I was staying. I said “My house.” She smiled at me expectedly. “You can too if you want” I said. She said she might. I was generally quite confused.
After a short time of photographing people and having to put up with Sam playing the guitar we set off home. Sam told the girls to follow us so we could take them to the Secret Garden to sleep.
The four of us left. For some unknown reason Abby and Natty stood outside Glyn’s house talking. We continued to walk to my house, they showed no sign of following. We turned the corner and they were out of sight, eventually they came around the corner and we could see them again, Sam pointed at the abandoned house and shouted “That’s the Secret Garden, have a good sleep“. We walked home
Epilogue
This morning when I rang John, I was informed that the girls were intending to sleep at my house and that they were a tad pissed off with me and Sam, claiming we were mean to them. Oh dear.
