Martha groaned, shaking her head, but took a large sip of her drink for liquid courage. "It's embarrassing," she said, and Larry's cheeky smile just made it a little worse, her cheeks heating. "So...my GCSE World History teacher was a huge Springsteen fan, so he had all the album posters in his classroom. He was an American history specialist, and this was an independent school, so it wasn't quite so weird as it sounds."

She cleared her throat, took another sip, and forced back a giggle. "And you know what the cover of Born in the USA looks like, yeah?"