It seemed all the more idiotic in the dim morning light. Of course Heather was fine!Lara stirred and then was still again. My watch said damned early,...so I hoped that no one had looked in on us. That would’ve been an awkward thing to explain. I carefully unwrapped myself from the sheet and slipped out into the hallway. No one in the house was awake yet, to my relief. I went to my room and pulled on a bathing suit and shirt. I considered lying down again, but I knew my mind was done with sleep. "I managed to get a friend to drop me off on her way to work." She answered."Me, take the bus!" She laughed."What? You're walking right now, taking a bus is a definite possibility." I argued my point."True, but if walking is the only way to get to your apartment, then that's the way it's gonna have to be." She said."You know? I don't think that I had actually found out things about anyone as quickly as we did about each other." I stated, changing the subject."Yeah. That's true." Mila said. "But. "Hope you don't think I am too forward, Alex? - but it has been such a long time since I have been with a bloke, and I do miss the warmth and comfort a man can give a woman."I was stuck for words, all this caring and attention in the greenhouse was so lovely and good, I felt like a teenager again starting all over. Remembering how it was with my first girl called Millie with whom, ironically, I lost my innocence in a greenhouse when I was working as an apprentice gardener in a large firm, she. The sheets were red, she tried to get up on her own again.I put my hand on her head and I said its going to be okay, stroking her head in a soothing voice.“Are you going back to your room?” she asked her eyes pleading.“if you don’t want me to, I won’t” I said.She made space for me to sit beside her.She was staring at ceiling deep in though while I looked at her beautiful face.“When will dad be coming back?”“In a week I guess.”“Do you think I can walk by then?”“I think so, if you rest well and.