In retrospect it seems a bit mechanistic, but I was caught up in the moment. My cup of tea arrived, and the shopkeeper introduced herself as Deirdre C...llins. We exchanged greetings. Ivy looked all ready to retreat into herself, but Deirdre brightly kept the conversation going by extracting every scrap of information about myself. Her training in the KGB was certainly paying off. Ivy listened attentively, and every now and again I felt her eyes brush across my face, and return to her lap. We. She was wearing a short jean skirt and a white tank top that showed off her soft curvy body so well. About half way thru the evening and after we both had several beers a piece a couple we know Ted and Deb came in. See Lilly and Ted had been "friends with benefits " for somewhere around a month now, that I knew of anyway, but I had not yet actually got to see them together.I really don't know what you would call what we have going on. It started out with us having same room sex with another. “Want to come along?”“No, I think I’ll just take the bus home and call it a night,” Claire said after thinking about it for a moment. “I’m a bit tired.”“Are you sure?” Patricia asked.“Yeah,” Claire assured her.“All right, suit yourself,” Patricia smiled, thinking it would’ve been nice if Claire had come along, but also knowing when not to push.Claire walked out of the school with Patricia and watched as she and a few other classmates climbed into the borrowed car. She wondered for a few moments. ," Alex asked, coyly, "can you really afford to live thisway? I mean the house is massive and how many people actually workhere?"Veronica shrugged. I really don't know if I can, yet. My accountant saysthat the trust to maintain the house is pretty big, but Sophia's estateis pretty complicated. There's only four people on the staff right now -June and Melissa, then there's the woman who cooks and the woman whotakes care of the grounds. My accountant is still figuring things out.For now, though,.