I had no idea what we'd do when we got there and I was getting very anxious. We didn't park outside, rather, a few yards down the road.The house was r...ther untidy; the garden overgrown and we walked round by the side of the house. The upstairs windows were open; we stood there and looked at each other. What did we do now? At which point we heard a scream. A second scream was sort of cut off, as if something had been stuffed in the screaming mouth. Dulcie had her mobile out."Go in," she said,. We’ve become quite different people; with very different goals in life. We aren’t the same teenage kids that we were three years ago, or even nine months ago. You seem quite happy to continue on in your comfortable middle class life, playing the same music, doing the same things. I mean, you haven’t even taken the opportunity to broaden your experience and move into the inner city, but you still live at home, safe in the ‘insular peninsula’. There’s so much more to life that you need to. She saw what appeared to be one of Gerald’s socks lying in the open piano, and smiled to herself. Setting the cheese cake on the counter, she opened a cupboard and took out a coffee mug. She was just finished filling it, when Alice appeared in the doorway, her finger hooked through the handle of an empty mug. “While you’re at it, do you mind giving me a refill?” Alice asked. “Not at all. While I fix our coffee, and slice the cake, you can go take the dust rag out of the piano,” Carla said,. I wasnot looking forward to the rest of the week. Finally, the cab from the company I had called pulledup in front. I was kind of surprised to notice thedriver was a young woman, I doubt she was in herthirties yet. She saw me and leaned over, callingthrough the window. “Potter?” “Yes.” Thankfully, I climbed into the back seat,dropping my heavy briefcase onto the seat beside me. A large notice told me to fasten my seat belt. Anotherwarned me not to smoke. A third informed.