18 HOME SWEET HOME Lek woke up fairly early and decided to catch the first bus up country that she could. She didn’t care whether it was VIP, First Class, Second Class or a hay wagon, she just wanted to get out of Pattaya and go home. She had no idea whether Craig would ever ring her, she honestly thought that it could go either way. Or that maybe he would phone for a few weeks and then the calls would stop. That was probably the most likely. She had seen it happen many times before and indeed it had happened to her before as well.
She got to the bus station on Sukhumvit Road just before midday and was lucky enough to get a bus to Phitsanulok at twelve thirty. It was not much of a bus, in fact it was the worst kind, but at least she wo
