"Lucky you," the courier said with a smile, reaching back to brush her lover's hair from her eyes, envying her immensely.Miranda turned back to where ...he sound had come from, and considered the consequences of simply going back to bed. Of just wrapping herself in her blankets again, of sharing Misty's warmth and feeling her lover's soft skin against her own until sleep came to take her once more."This had better be good," she grumbled, leaning forward to dig her watch out of pile of clothes. But I hated having to do it. I hate having to do anything.” Laura nodded, but she nodded imperceptibly, worried that the flame haired woman would notice her acknowledgment of the denigration of the French language. “It’s not the language that’s an issue,” the woman went on, “it’s that one has to learn it. They squashed that rule at the turn of the century.” At the turn of the century. Laura wondered how old this dark, seductive woman was. She didn’t ask her though. Just then they were. I was nervous about how I was going to control the pedals in my heelsbut quickly got the hang of it, without hitting anything and we wereoff. Strangely I seemed to be driving more like Leanne (nervously) andwould pause to let cars out or turn across the road in front of me.As I drove into the car park I made more of a meal of parking and drovestraight into the spot rather than reverse in like I would normally do.Also when reversing in I would normally do it in one go but it took meseveral. When we bought the house 5 years ago he asked if could give us 60 days so he could decide if we were people he could work with. We apparently passed his test because he's still there.Eric just turned 72 and spent his career in the military. He retired at 60 and has lived a pretty quite life since. The owners before us said that he was bit reclusive and we wouldn't see him that much. That sure didn't turn out to be true... he's spent more time in our kitchen than we have.The summer we moved.