Chapter Sixteen
Lek was awoken by one if the most disgusting smells she had ever encountered in her life. She opened her eyes and turned to her right to see her husband, mouth opened wide, breathing the fumes of the night before over her. It was a mixture of beer, Lao and cigarettes, something completely alien to her. She jumped out of bed quickly when she heard her mother outside cooking, lest Tom wake up feeling frisky, changed into her normal day clothes and hurried out onto the patio, where her brothers and sister were awaiting a late breakfast.
Her father hadn’t surfaced yet, but then no-one was going to school or work that day; that had already been arranged. “Where’s Gran?” she asked.
“Aw, she had a late night, so she said she’d make her own breakfast. I saw her pottering around
