Travelling.” He went over to the window and looked over at the glittering city, its eternal roar a silent gesture in the warm room. She was beside h...m before he realised she had moved, closer than she’d been all evening. He could scent her, an old lion scenting a lithe young doe. He grinned suddenly at the trite image. A doe with a kick, he thought. No pushover, this one. “What are you smiling at out there?” “Out there? No. In here.” He turned to face her. She was nearly as tall as he, after. Justin’s a fairly straight kind of guy, in both senses. If anyone could have women friends who were just that, you know, just friends, well, he’d be the one most likely…’ ‘Yes?’ Sophie asked, as she glanced at her handbag where she stored her cigarettes and wondered whether it would be too rude to light one up. ‘So, I thought maybe you’d be a bit like Justin, you know. Perhaps you were someone not interested in sex with men. Maybe you were a bit, you know, sexually reserved. But I didn’t expect. ‘Great, that’s just great.’ Shoving it deep into the pocket of his bag he walked back to his harbour side apartment. Cecilia hadn’t contacted him again directly, instead she sent their friends to do her dirty work. For his part Joel had been resolute in his determination not to return to their family home. It wasn’t a home for him without his mother there. This Halloween celebration had always been his mother’s thing, he couldn’t bear to have it distorted by Cecilia. Three days before the party. It was pretty intense but also comical, as I took a chair and just sat back letting them settle things themselves. I can see why men get so excited over this type of thing. I was getting a little turned on too watching my two curvy friends mash their breasts against each other, and engage in some vicious hair pulling.Krissy seemed to have the upper hand, grabbing Dee by the throat as she began scolding her. “You stole my man, you took my trophy, you’re not getting my best friend too.” I was.