I can rush over if you start to feel funny again."I was glad they were gone because it gave me time to recover. I took outmy compact and looked at mys...lf in the mirror. My makeup looked fine butI quickly dabbed on some lipstick and ran my fingers through my hair andsmoothed my dress. My appetite was gone but I drank both glasses of waterthat were on the table.They soon returned to the table smiling, seeming to have agreed on asubject in my absence. Surprisingly, Derek took out his phone, told. .. Who did she go out with? The girls?" No. I dunno. Maybe some guy. I didn't see. Won't be that she has been dating, that's for sure." How long has she been dating?" I don't know, Kyle. Maybe right after school started, I guess." Sue-Ellen was the not terrifically astute when it came to relationships. She just answered the questions as best she could. She had no idea that Kyle knew nothing of Stephanie dating other guys."Do I know this guy, Sue-Ellen?" I don't know. Probably not. I don't. This is something different; as she suddenly looked away, blushing like I have never seen before, then looking back, as we both smiled at the same time.The silence between the two of us spoke volumes we partly understood; together we reached out our hands for one another’s, wondering just what would happen…When the wind came up suddenly, dumping a bunch of leaves from the surrounding trees all over me.It took a great deal of effort to get them out of my hair; my sheepish grin at Samantha was. Not in the slightest. Instead Jimmy did his impression of Zeus descending from Mount Olympus; all thunderbolts and lightning, stomped feet and overturned furniture, raised voice and rambling rants. And the upshot of such a scene; well about an hour later I answer a knock at the door to find a tear stained, mascara lined, dishevelled, shivering Pippa clutching her car keys, her blouse mis-buttoned, with incoherent sobs falling from her trembling lips. Oh dear! Only one thing for it: a nice cup.