I said that once, to her face, and was met with her quizzical eyebrow. ‘Your Amelia, Alex? I don’t think so. You’re my Alex. Surely you know tha... by now?’ The smile in her eyes when she said it, her smile said it all. Her Alex. My Amelia. I think we’d both fallen in love, somewhere between the rope and the wheels and the veil. Strange, that we say fallen. For us, it seemed to happen more side by side with a stillness, a circling, an enrapture. Perhaps you only fall if there’s a safety net.. ' I handed her an old bowl.She looked at me: 'I can't pee while you are here.''Well, I can't go anywhere else now, can I.' I laughed.'Okay, then don't look.I sat at my desk. Facing away from her, but I heard all the sounds. Her pants unzipping, her panties slipping down. The faint noise of pee streaming out of her.'I cannot believe I just did that in front of you.' She shamefully said.She put the bowl in the corner. 'Were gonna need that bowl later I guess.''Well, what do you want to do? The. I think we both fell in love about a year after the whole thing started, and we fell hard. We moved in to some off-campus housing together and really made a go at it. I suppose I convinced myself that everything was fine, I was walking on clouds after all I felt so happy. But no illusion lasts forever, and that’s exactly what Chloe and I were, an illusion. My dreams came crashing down to land somewhere around my feet when I came home one day to find Chloe in our bed with a man, fucking him. Her beer gut and breasts were on full display butthat was Linda. She didn't care about her appearance anymore. SighingRichard grabbed a beer from the fridge and then sat down on the chair nextto the sofa. He placed his feet on the table not bothering to take off hisblack thigh high boots. Richard resisted the urge to poke Linda in thebelly with the heel of his boot as he drunk his beer.After he finished his beer Richard decided that it was time to wake Lindaup. Putting the bottle down he got up.