A few days before Christmas eve we drove up to the Lake District, Helen usually sat quietly in the back seat of the car playing games on her phone ins...ead she sat beside me and just looked out of the window holding my hand when possible which was quite often as we used the Motorway most of the time.Helen finally broke the silence “Dad are you seeing Ms Carter the arts teacher its all round the school” I know schools are places for gossip and any tale is quickly passed around but this time its. ‘What is wrong?’ her mother said as she came down the stairs. ‘What happened? Are you okay?’ ‘Nothing happened . I will be fine. It is just Eric, mom. He truly does not know how to leave me alone and mind his own darn business. He is worrying about losing his job and yet he does not do parts of it and I end up doing it in the end. This makes absolutely no sense to me. Tell me. Does it make any sense at all to you?’ ‘No honey, I do not think it makes sense either. You can not let him get to you. They started jumping up and down squealing to each other, "Do you believe this?"I just sat back and smiled. They had earned every penny. All three had worked extremely hard all week, and the sales numbers showed that. If anything needed to be done, someone would jump on it immediately without having to be asked, and rarely needed instructions. They took care of business and it meant I was free to do some additional designs that we'd worked on between shows but hadn't had the opportunity to. And that is?”The Doctor then said, “Can I please have those crutches back? My co-worker will need those so she can go home in ten minutes.”Courtney walked to my car. She hugged me and whispered in my ear, “Call me once you have talked to Elena about you helping to give me a baby. And watch over your little sister there.”After Courtney hugged Maxine and whispered in her ear we all said our goodbyes.In the car Maxine said, “So Elena said that you know a few lesbians. Not just Courtney and Jenny..