My first point of call was my friend Jerome. Jerome and I used to be a bit of an item but then he got a job as the Manager of the local supermarket an... all of a sudden his only interest seemed to be the price of beans. Apart from the odd bashed tin it was downhill all the way for us. But now I thought he might prove useful. Who else would get the local gossip on the bored housewives of k**erton?Jerome was up for it, well I knew he would be; since we broke up I don’t think he'd had a date more. "Call her now. See if she'll accept dinner. You can tell her at dinner that you need to talk, leaving her a way out if she needs it."Rob pulled his phone from his belt and called up Dawn's number.Hello? Rob recognized the roommate's voice."Hi, this is Rob. Can I talk to Dawn please?"Hold on. I'll see if she wants to talk.He thought that was an odd thing to say. He heard a brief argument, then Dawn's voice came over the phone. She sounded happy.Hey, Rob. What's up?"Is everything okay? I thought. She took a small ice pack and a gauze pad."This is going to be cold," Sarah said, handing them to Hope as she took some medical tape. "Hold them to your cheek, gauze on top."Hope did so, gritting her teeth from how cold the ice pack was as Sarah taped it in place. Sarah checked that is was secure and nodded, satisfied."That'll ease any more swelling," Sarah said. "You're god to go. Dinner time?" Yeah, sounds good," Hope replied, smiling."What do you want?" Sarah asked."You," Hope said, grinning. "Well, I guess there's not much more I can say then, except how do you two plan on suggesting the idea to Don?" "Let Terri and me handle that part," Carol replied. "When we all go out boating today, we'll get him interested don't you worry? All you have to do is just play along with us, okay?" "No problem ladies," Mike said. "But I do have just one request of you, Terri?" "What's that, dear?" Terri asked. "I want to.