"I'm sorry if I sounded a little brusque" That's alright my love... Sara why don't you go and put the kettle on... I'll take Debbie up and show her th... room... we'll all have a nice cuppa when I return"I followed her up the stairs progress was slow. Mollie wasn't the nimble person she used to be and by the time we'd reached the top, her breathing was laboured."Phew... I'm not as fit as I used to be... don't get up here as often as I used to... through here my love" she said, opening the bedroom. I got undressed, brushed my teeth, washed my face, turned off the lights, crawled under the blankets and tried to get comfortable.I don't like sleeping alone. I didn't mind when I was younger, because I didn't know any better. It took some time to get used to Izzy sharing my bed when I was thirteen, but not much. It took a lot longer to get used to her not being there after she went off to college, even though our sharing the bed wasn't an all the time kind of thing. It took time to get used to. "Joey walked in closer, calmly. "It doesn't matter. Look, I am sorry for what I did to you two. It was wrong. I can try and make excuses for what I did: You were scaring me, and hurting me and Simon, and I wanted to scare you and hurt you so much you would never think of hurting anyone else again. But I was wrong! It doesn't work like that. It never works like that. I only made you angrier. And I don't want you angry with me, so I'm not going to fight you any more. I'm not going to pull your. We could see about eight boys playing football in the distance, Paul was there , I also new all the others, Paul saw us and waved me over , Kate and sally carried on walking on, Paul ran up to me and asked why I hadn’t been in school, as Kate’s voice rang out , we will be back at ten I just waved at her I told Paul I hadn’t felt good but was fine now We kicked the ball around for half hour , when we finished i invited Paul back , he eagerly excepted we had a drink when we got him, I told him.