On entering each room, the first thing she did was to switch on the lights. No-one was there.Maddy scorned her overactive imagination and headed upsta...rs to finish off her essay. Walking in she closed the door. No sooner had she done so, when a strong hand clamped over her hand whilst the other held onto her waist tightly. She immediately began to struggle but it was futile and after a few minutes she gave up. Releasing her, she swirled to come face to face with her rapist. Her stomach. And this fixation never faltered. As I grew older I continued to dream of her and, with the independence that came with moving out of my parents' house, began with come up with excuses to visit her. She lived about half an hour away from my university campus and was closer than my parents so I often went to hers for weekends or holidays.And so it was that I was round at hers one New Year's Eve. At the time I was 22 and she was 28. Her ex-boyfriend had recently moved out following an argument. Spook looked at Andrew as if to say, “Take this thing already will you, it’s dinner time.”Andrew smiled and took the proffered meat from the tail-wagging dog sitting in front of him. He started walking again and pulled out a small skinning knife that was part of his belt kit. Without stopping he stripped the rabbit down. Spook grabbed up the guts as Andrew gutted it and slurped them down without hesitation. Once most of the bones had been removed, Andrew wrapped the meat in the skin and. More than he had given me. That photo in his kitchen had brought us onto a whole other road than the one I thought we were on, and I couldn’t continue riding on it blindly without knowing at least some of its twists and turns.And then there was the matter of Chloe.He sighed and leaned back, shaking his head a little. “When I first met Chloe I thought she was cute. I liked her. She was a bit high maintenance for me, but I knew I was pretty high maintenance, too.” He smiled at me but I couldn’t.