‘Leave it unlocked and I’ll grab you some towels as soon as I’m done making everybody a drink.’I went through to the modern bathroom (wet room... that was new looking and probably cost a fortune. The shower head came out from one wall with no cubicle, just open to the room which I thought was odd, like being in communal showers at the swimming pool. I relieved my bladder and then sussed out the controls on the shower. I got it just how I like it and stripped off my clothes and shoes. I closed my. “Happy birthday mum” he shouted up the stairs, shrugging off his backpack and hanging his school coat up on the hook. He bounded up the stairs with the box of chocolates and birthday card in his hand that he had bought her for her 50th birthday.She mustn’t have heard him as she crooned away beneath the shower head, the water drumming against the base in accompaniment to her. David stood by the bathroom door and imagined his mother soaping her body as the water cascaded down her shapely figure,. “The question, Bill, is not whether but how much and when.”“You drink and nag me about my drinking. You smoke, and I don’t. But you don’t hear me nagging you,” he pointed out.“I smoke in my office so as not to annoy you. I’d have been home earlier if I hadn’t taken time to smoke a cigarette when I wasn’t in the car.” And that was the first time she’d mentioned that. Did that mean that she’d taken a cigarette beak while the traffic she complained of got worse? Anyway, her containment of the. Probably most of this time spent either watching the ladies dance on their pole downstairs, or upon all of our masculine poles upstairs in our big oversize bed. Now everything had changed.Lumpy and Ella had gone home early to let us deal privately with our relationship issues, and so had Mark and Courtney. We phoned them to politely re-invite them to come over as planned, but we didn't insist when they made mild excuses. I think they both wanted a quiet day of rest at home too. As for Teresa,.