" "Well," she continued. "If I'm not your mother, then maybe we should sit a little bit closer, don't you think?" And we scooted closer. I placed my a...m around her, my hand on her warm, bare back. I toyed with her hair as we sipped champagne. Good man, that Fritz. "Mmmm," Mom cooed. "That's better. Now we look like a couple." And she patted my knee under the table. And she kept it there. And I almost said that they can't see under the table but I was able to shut my stupid mouth up just in. She wanted carnal action and she wanted it her way. Being in a relationship, she did not want to spend her evenings out but she was bold enough to tell me that we should meet up during day time for a ‘great time’. Both of us wanted a good session of wild passionate sex and I obliged. On a public holiday, we met.. finally.The way we met was pre-determined. I would book a small time motel and then text her the address. She would sneak out of her office and meet me in the given address . That’s. He ate a bigger breakfast than he'd ever eaten in his life. He laughed and joked with everyone. He was part of the family. There was a general scramble to get to the school bus and school went even better than it had yesterday.On the school bus coming back from school John told him they had another chore to do after herding the cows in today. They dropped off their books and ran out to the pasture. The cows started toward the barn. David petted a calf and led it toward the tree line. John told. She'd love to have those feelings from last night again, it was true.Last night was the first time in her life that she had understood, and it had been wonderful.But she would never be able to return Cassie's mawkish adoration.She felt dirty, she felt like a fraud.Julie had finally seen the glaring dishonesty at the centre of her life.Living with Cassie was fun, they had good times together, but Julie had always seen it as a temporary arrangement. Julie still expected that one day she'd fall in.