I probably should have waited for her to speak, but I wasn’t sure she would be able to bring herself to say it.“Yes,” I said, “I could track y...u even while you were non-corporeal. I have been following you for the past year, trying to get a chance to speak with you. Obviously, I couldn’t see you, but I could hear your thoughts. ... and I could feel your pain.”I reached over and took her hand. “But more than that,” I said softly, “I came to know the real you and I fell in love.”“What!?” she. The door to my parents’ bedroom was closed, and I didn’t see any light leaking from under the door, which meant they were most likely asleep. I stopped in the bathroom to brush my teeth, then went into my room and shut the door. Emmy had taken a huge risk coming to the house, and the fact that I was home put me right in the middle of it. But there wasn’t anything I could do about it.Liz had said she’d come talk to me, and I wondered how long it would be. I tuned my radio to the ‘classic rock’. I half-whimpered as the pleasure grew, biting my lip.I’m glad. Just relax. Think about whatever you like.My mind was a riot of thoughts and images. Being with mother. With Zuri. Being with both of them. Lying under the tree, I could smell their unique scents: the warm salt-and-musk of my sister sleeping quietly not half a meter from me, and the flowers and-herbs smell of my mother, the scent brushed onto her thighs from the field of wild lavender we had walked through earlier that day.The tree. “Yeah I guess it is sort of. I don’t want to pry but I don’t want Kate to get hurt. Do you realise how much you mean to her?”“Look Trevor, I can’t guarantee you Kate is never going to get hurt. I can’t tell you we are going to live happily ever after. I know Kate loves me, and I am falling in love with her. But this isn’t easy for me, I’ve never had a girlfriend before, until this week I’ve never even thought of women in that way. All I can say is that I will try my best not to let either of us.