"Must you go?" asked Miranda, I'd like some company."The young wife smiled slightly."That would be nice. Let me get Elijah to bed and I'll bring up so...e tea. We can talk then."She left quietly.Miranda washed and lay down on the bed, her mind racing. She had already determined that in the morning she would try to find employment at one of the stores in town, at least until Tom was on his feet again. There would be bills to pay and she would do what she could to help. This was one way, perhaps. "You ordered for me. No one has done that since I was a small c***d." Well, there's nothing about you that is still a small c***d," I said softly.The wine was presented and as were two wine goblets. Our server poured the first half glass."Please, take a slice of bread," I said as I took a sip of wine, allowing the rich texture of the wine to dance across my tongue."I noticed you didn't order garlic," She said looking rather wistfully at the butter."If you like it, please don't let me stop you.. I just had one single night to do that. We were kind of in touch all these years, how two normal friends remain in contact with that on-off type. I straight away rushed back downstairs and greeted her with my cutest smile.She introduced me to her female colleague, who was also her roommate for the night. We started to get along as normal friends. I saw the brightness in her eyes when she introduced me. She said how she was excited to meet me after such a long gap.She said we both had kept in. As the day wore on looking at house after house I'd noticed that Jillian had become very touchy feely just like the day before but put it down to just being friendly.We arrived at the last house at about 2.30pm and as we pulled into the driveway I started to fall in love with the place. Jillian said that the owners were at work and she had permission to show me through the house. It was everything that we wanted large living areas, big yard, swimming pool, deep-water frontage, air con, and.