Besides, I was too busy enjoying the sight of her legs. As always,they were in black nylon, though her skirt was perhaps a little longerthan usual. "G...t a new uniform for you to try," she said, indicating aneatly folded pile of clothes.It turned out to be a black pinafore dress, with a very short skirt. Iwore it with a white blouse, a striped tie and the same knee-high blacksocks and boots I had acquired for the party. I didn't recognise theuniform from any nearby school, but Shauna said she. This was as good a chance as any to dosomething about what I'd been thinking about almost non-stop sinceyesterday.I waited a good five to ten minutes after the rest of the family had leftthe house, and then I went in to my parents' bedroom. I opened themirrored doors of their wardrobe's and first saw my dad's clothes and gotthis feeling of "ugh no!" My mother's clothes we're next, and I gentlylooked through them, not wanting to disturb anything giving away mysecret that I was rifling through. "You see darling it was the only meal I've ever had that I didn't cook myself."She slept again then while I sat in the garden and I must have dozed off because it was mid-afternoon when I awoke to find mum seated on a kitchen chair beside me, head back, eyes closed soaking up the sun."I'm not asleep Terry," she said, "I'm just enjoying the sun."For some reason, I thought of dad, and I took hold of her hand."Is there anything you need or want from the house, mum?" How much money have you got. A few minutes of reading the text that scrolled out on the screen shocked me with the discovery that I'd found, entirely by accident, Rachel's diary. Apparently she didn't trust to keep a normal paper diary for fear that her mother might find it, and so knowing that mom never used the computer she put it here. She also thought it well enough hidden to elude me, since the directory wouldn't show up unless I accidentally unhid the thing, and then I had to notice it was there and that it wasn't.