Freda and Manny were still there and they had just decided that he'd had too many beers to drive home. Freda had just set the driver's seat to her lik...ng when the phone call came through; Manny hated Freda adjusting the seat to suit her, as it takes him a month to adjust it back to suit him.Rachael Alison Maureen Newman was welcomed home by the family and friends at 7:40 PM, less than an hour and a half after the birth. Freda was astonished to see Maureen - meek, frightened of a mouse Maureen -. I snatchthe pouch from his hand and take the lipsticks and look at the colours.One is bright red, the other would match his maroon in his waistcoat andthe other is very subtle that would match the natural colour of his lips."That's a shame, all pretty girls look lovely wearing lipstick," I tease,handing back the lipsticks and the pouch."Please stop making fun of me," James mumbles.I move closer to him, put my hands on the railing on either side of hisbody blocking off any escape James might. No morning ‘twofer.’ No evening ‘twofer.’ No anything for that matter. Tuesday followed, then Wednesday, both with the same result. On Thursday, I got her to spread her legs long enough so that I could fuck her, but like that morning when everything changed with her and Denise, it was bland. No, it wasn’t just bland, it was humiliatingly boring. Jesus, talk about your mercy fuck, because that’s what it was. She lay there like a lump, her eyes just staring blankly up at the ceiling. At the time,. I think some of the terror childbirth had caused in her remained, hanging around in Maureen's brain, and the thought of the horrible unknown of having a tiny, helpless baby in the house, and that she might have to be responsible for that tiny, helpless thing's health while Addie was at school, just scared her to death.That part was out of our hands anyway, which became clear when our parents arrived, having driven straight through, without stopping for anything except food and gas, changing.