Lily walked into the bar where she was to be meeting Deo. She spotted him immediately talking loudly at the bar with four or five of his friends. She walked straight over to him.
“Hi, Deo, how’re things?” She put a hand on his shoulder and stroked him lightly on the cheek. He slung an arm around her waist, but did not stop talking to his mates. He had to be cool in front of his friends.
“Are you going to get me a drink, Deo?”
“Sure, what do you want, doll?!
“A small Heineken, please. How are you guys?” She had met them all before, since they were Deo’s normal drinking buddies.”
“I’m fine, Boo,” said one of them.
They didn’t know her as Lily either. Lily had always liked him – he was one of the less macho men of all of Deo’s friends. She could also easily tell that he would be interes
