I was embarrassed and frightened, and wanted to run away as she led me firmly into the front room with an air of anticipation. Where is the furniture ...ou wanted to be shifted I enquiredWhat furniture Mukesh that was only an excuse to get you here she smiled.My throat was parched as she guided me to the couch and began to ask questions about my experience with girls Tell me something,’ Kavita asked whispering as if she were begging me to tell her my secrets. ‘Have you ever had a woman Mukesh. I COULD have said ‘no’, but didn’t. The question was, obviously, ‘why?’.‘Why?’ was, as I thought about it, because I was addicted to those kinds of relationships. I had shown I COULD break the addiction, and I’d even effectively used celibacy with Jennifer back when we were teenagers, as well as with my wives for the month before our marriage. In those cases, I’d had a clear goal in mind, and once I’d committed to it, I’d stuck with it. There was no reason I couldn’t do it again. Well, except. ‘Ruined my garden.’ ‘Ours, too,’ Tom agreed. ‘The crown of the tree destroyed my fence and landed in our ornamental pond. Killed off our koi.’ ‘I still have you all beat,’ Julia said. ‘For four weeks, now, I’ve had to take a taxi to work, and I still had to pay to get the wreckage of my old car off my own drive.’ ‘But we know all this,’ said Mrs Travis – just as Julia remembered that her name was Catherine. She looked at Julia, lighting a cigarette from the ornate wooden box on the coffee. “After year twelve? We went to the park?”“I thought I’d got it wrong,” I confessed. “Thought you’d tell all your friends I was easy. I lay awake all night imaging Marcus and Adrian laughing about you fucking me under that oak tree. I was terrified the entire school would know.”“I would never do that.” He sounded stung.“I know. I just didn’t know back then.”“There were a lot of things we didn’t know,” he said softly.“Like how good we had it?” I suggested“Like how good we can still have it.”His.