Come with me to the kitchen and see what I’ve got.”The two of us padded naked to the kitchen. I switched on the kettle then opened the fridge door... “Help yourself,” I instructed.While Mel was rummaging through the contents of the fridge, I put a teabag into a mug and added nearly-boiling water. Mel managed to find a soft drink to her taste, plonked herself on a kitchen chair, opened the can’s ringpull and took a large swig. “That’s better,” she said, before emitting a loud burp and breaking. I'm alive, the twins have forgiven you and as for us, nothing has to be over. Stop beating yourself up about him. He tricked you and probably drugged you, and he used your vulnerability against you. I think I can understand you a little better now. We should come to terms with it." Do you really mean that?"He nodded whilst trying to find the words to say what he felt. Being around Josie over the last days had made a lot of things clear to him even if he still had problems understanding his. I’m by no means a weakling but there was no way I could compete the weights this black hulk was lifting, and I didn’t feel like making a fool of myself trying. A few minute later I decided enough was enough and hit the showers. In the locker room I had washed up and was rooting through my bag to find my deodorant when in walked the big guy from the weight room. The gym was still quite and as before it was just the two of us there. We nodded to each other and gave the polite ‘morning.’ He was in. It was also one of the easiest rooms to keep warm, once we had rigged some cardboard up against the big window as extra insulation.Malcolm stayed with Sian most nights; sometimes the two of them slept over at his house. The two of them settled into a comfortable relationship with the three of us; when Malcolm was about our conversation didn't have the intimacy and sexual openness that we had enjoyed before Sian made her move on Malcolm, but it was clear that they were an item.Vee made no effort.