“Half a Lager please." Jamie replied.

“Any ID on you?" The woman inquired whilst keeping her expression and tone polite.

"Yeah." Jamie fished around in his wallet for his drivers licence and it to her.

After scrutinizing the picture and working out from his birth date that he was nineteen and above Legal drinking age she gave another cheerful grin.

“Sorry about that dear, we've got to ask if you Look under twenty five these days. By the time I'm sixty I bet I'll be getting bloody checked." She said with a good natured chortle.

Jamie decided he Liked the woman and laughed at the poor joke to be friendly whilst she poured out his drink.

“I'm not a stalker or anything but I was wondering where your bar-maid from Last night had gotten to?" Jamie asked as innocently as he could manage.

“Bar maid?" The woman Looked at him as if he'd just asked her to tell him where to find a unicorn.

“Sorry chuck. Only barmaid here is the one you're Looking at."

Jamie looked at the woman's sweaty brow and large double chin, he'd previously noted the large sagging breasts too though he wished he hadn't. This was definitely no Allison.

“Well there was a woman here last night cleaning tables is all...we talked and she cheered me up after a very long day. I just wanted to say goodbye." That was a reasonable excuse he thought. At any rate it worked a lot better than: ‘She started giving me a great handjob in a dream I had last night and now I'm trying to find her so she can finish me off.

The woman's mind was genuinely puzzled for a moment before she seemed to realise something. "Oh so that's why the tables and glasses were cleaned when I got up this morning!" The woman still seemed a little confused however.

“I never saw her if she was here. We don't have anyone staying here apart from your student lot at the moment either.

If you see her again though then thank her for me. Saved me an hours work this morning, not having to do that lot."

“Jamie I thought we were going?" Sonya said looking disapprovingly at his beer. She'd stepped up beside Jamie and scared him shitless. The boy was already a little freaked out to say the least.

“Yeah we are." He said after collecting himself. Picking up the half pint that the bar-maid had given him and paying for it with the exact change he had finished the drink in less than a minute. "Needed that.

Thanks for the chat." He breathed out with a sigh and turned back to look at Sonya.

“Lets go."

On his way out Jamie scanned the minds of all of the other patrons but found no trace of the image of Allison that was burned into his own mind so deeply.

"You just didn't overlook a woman Like that" He thought to himself.