"Tell Her Who I Really Am !"

As Jasmin had anticipated, there was a healthy turnout for this meeting of the resident's association. There were twelve in total; Jasmin and Siouxsie with their respective parents and Jasmin's annoying younger brother Ricky, Patty of course, a retired couple the Pattersons, the handsome graduate Charles who Lauren flirted with but who did not want to know and Gerry, the block's caretaker, whose life Lauren made a misery with her constant complaints.

"Now where's that girl got to ?" mused Mildred as they all crammed into the living room. "Lauren, come and meet your guests" she called. "Who ? No. What ?" replied Lauren incoherently from her refuge in the kitchen. The gathered crowd waited expectantly as Mildred stalked off towards the kitchen. They had all been primed beforehand by the girls about what to expect but it was still a shock to most of them when Mildred returned, dragging the naked and complaining Lauren by the ear. "You will meet your guests" the professional babysitter insisted.

Despite the lack of makeup and the hair now set in childish bunches, that pretty face was Lauren's for sure. But oh dear, that scrawny body ! Slowly, the assembled guests began to giggle and then to laugh openly. Held firmly and painfully by the ear as she was, there was little chance for Lauren to cover, much as she squirmed, bent and tried to cross her legs. "Stand up straight and say hello to everyone" Mildred demanded.

Lauren was mortified but in her desperation she saw a chance to end this nightmare. She couldn't do anything now about what these people had already seen but they could still be her salvation and so she broke away from Mildred and yelled "OK, so you've all had a good laugh. Now tell this old bag who I really am !"