“Clearly I have been mistaken to treat you like an adult when you are nothing but a little girl. You shall have your punishment. I will eat in the k...tchen this evening while you take a supper of bread and water, and then you must be in bed by eight. It is not for silly children to be drinking wine with their elders and betters.”He stormed from the room, leaving Rose both relieved and – for some reason – disappointed.The supper that was waiting for her when she came to the dining room was indeed. Benjamin lounged on his big pillow beside us as I shared my thoughts. "Beth Ann is right. I need to marry one of you and let people think whatever they wish. For the foreseeable future, I intend to fly back up here at night and sleep with you all in our big bed."Occasional circumstances will require me to use the family quarters to grab a little rest during a crisis, but I am very content to come home to you all, right here, every night, unless you just have to try living at sixteen-hundred. I can’t stay here. This place, it’s stifling me.” He dropped his hands to his sides and finally looked at me.“I can’t live here, I can’t be who I am here. I can’t be with who I want to be here.”“What? You want to be with Mr Wilson?” I asked incredulously.“No.” He stammered and went red. “That's not what I want."“Well I was a bit surprised about you and Wilson yesterday. I never realised.”I stared at the boy I’d known my whole life and felt something stirring inside me. Without thinking, my body. She leant forward to me and said “breathe on me” I stepped back “why?” I asked, my sister smirked at me and said “cus I want to smell your breath” Knowing I had no way out I leant towards her face and heavily breathed on her. Her reaction was different to what I expected “ooo she said where’s the vodka then?” I opened the cabinet and handed it to her. “Please don’t tell mum I pleaded” she laughed “of course I won’t tell but she’s coming up soon to clean the bathroom so...” I panicked “say I’ll.