David's phone lit up with a reminder that read, 'Buy a gift for the Dirty Santa you dote'. David slurs, "Oh shite! That's Friday & it's already Tuesday". He hurriedly opens the browser on his phone and opens Amazon to search for what to get. The company mandate was to bring an alcohol-related gift to the exchange. He decides a wine bottle opener would be a good gift. He quickly browses some online reviews and finds that a...

The rest of the night was uneventful and the girls slept soundly. Jess's Mum surprised everyone when they woke to find her already up and showering. They could hear her in the bathroom, singing to herself. Holly and Jess looked at each other, then at Jenny who walked into the room naked and smiling carrying a tray of mugs. "Hot coffee," she called and put the tray down next to the bed. The sound of water running stopped a...

After an evening of watching movies and chatting the girls had fallen asleep on the sofa. In the early hours of the morning, Jess's Mum and her friend Jenny had arrived home from the hen night. They were quite drunk and they burst loudly into the house. As they saw the girls were still up they crashed onto the sofa and both started babbling on about the evening at the same time. They had met up with a group of old friends...

The girls waited a couple of minutes before making their way as noisily as they could into the kitchen. Chattering about nothing in general, just making sure the boys knew they were indoors. "Hey, you two, what pizza do you want? What drink?" Jess called out but got no reply. "I'll go up and ask," Holly said. She made her way upstairs. The bathroom door was closed so Holly called through the door. "Jess wants to know what...