You'll finally have a brother or sister,” I replied.“Well that's cool I guess,” Jeanette said.She obviously had some issues with this. She wasn'... as energetic after we told her about us. She wasn't bitching about Brian anymore or talking about school. We weren't sure how she would take this.“Does this mean I'm gonna lose you as a best friend?” I asked.“No Callie. This is just huge. Of course I'm glad you are moving in. But this is still just huge, I just find out about you two and that you are. That night when I arrived back at the stop and alighted, I saw him standing at his window, he waved to acknowledge my looking up at him, and strangely, I instinctively waved back, as I stood there alone, now the bus had left and everything around was as dark as in the morning, you see it got dark around three in the afternoon, here up North.I started walking away from the bus stop and found myself for some inexplicable reason, walking to his flat, I felt no fear, just a yearning to confront. ‘Either you hit the lottery or you’ve done very well with your personal trainer business.’ ‘No lottery,’ he said after hanging his bike upside down on hooks suspended from the garage roof. ‘But yeah, my business is doing okay and I got lucky, buying this place in an estate sale. The former owners, both in their eighties, died within weeks of each other. Their kids then sold it for a song in as-is condition, just to be rid of it. It needs a lot of work inside as you’ll soon see.’ He showed her. Then she tops it off by dangling her in front of you, just out of reach. It's a bummer.''Your powers of analysis never cease astound me, Jerry.''Thanks. And you know her husband?''Roy Lakeland. We were at school together.''I've heard that name before. Can't remember where.''You know that website '" Top Ten of Everything?''Yeah, I know that. It's good fun. All the lists are wrong, but it's good fun.''Roy was one of the founders. The company floated a couple of years back, it was all over.