I was up to it and the money was great but like everything the deadlines were looming not too far into the future. With those thoughts running through...my head I entered my house and saw JAMIE, in blue jeans and a blouse, sprawled out on the couch on her cell phone as usual. She was giggling, and obviously talking to a girl friend or perhaps a boy since I knew that she had recently broken up with her boyfriend and I knew that would not last long, as beautiful and sexy as she is, although I. There is a vase filled with pink roses, that are for me. The note reads, Happy Anniversary Vanessa. There is a black wrapped box, with a gold bow on the bed. I open the box, and there is a pair of black stiletto pumps, a blindfold, and some silk scarves. The note says to undress, put on the shoes, and put the blindfold on, and wait on the bed. I am not sure what Mark has on his mind, but I am doing as I am told. I am waiting on the bed. I hear the key turning and the door opens and closes. Mark. . together. it might be weird for me." Tell me" I said, with a confident smile, "How have you felt these last two days, each and every time that you walk up or down those stairs?" I asked, point down the flight leading to the entry-way. "I remember" she said softly. "I remember what I did..... I remember what I now am." she added"Tell me" I said, again softly so as to not wake the sleeping baby on the floor below."We had sex" she replied, almost in a whisper."What you mean to say" I corrected. “Dad?”“Hmm?”“When you get back after work. Don’t use the couch...”He had to run down the stairs and across the carpark in order to be at the bus-stop at the required time. Alec reached it as a pale blue Fiat five hundred pulled up. The passenger window rolled down.“Alec?”He suddenly remembered her name. “Alice?”“Hop in!’The Fiat was not a good ride for him. The seat didn’t go back far enough for his height and he had to hunch just to stop his head banging off the roof. Which it did anyway.Alice.