‘You’re late Mal!’ she hissed. ‘Sorry love, the meeting ran late,’ Mal apologized. She growled softly at his word choice but fell silent as ...he sound of an engine disrupted the stillness and silence of the night. They glanced at each other, the panic evident in both of their eyes. Thinking quickly, Mal covered her with his body and pressed his lips to hers. She struggled for a moment but her body betrayed her and she found herself returning the kiss. The lights of the vehicle nearly blinded. ..So far the babies, Willow (yeah the ladies decided that she does look like you) and Wendy mostly eat and sleep. I do think from observing the other households around us that we're the odd people out as far as the number of children present or on the way. Then again most of them seemed to be wise enough to have at least one experienced mother in the house before they arrived here. That is one area where we could have done much better. You and Erica are so very much better off than we are for. They want us to come up again. Guess Bob was a little mad at me for breaking his stereo, though. No sweat, Sybil said she'd take care of it." He hummed that tune again, a tune Gwen had never heard before."I didn't know you broke the stereo?" Yeah. Sybil was showing me some tricks. Said I should try them on you this week. They're great tricks. Really great. Only good friends would share them, like secrets, you know. Anyway, we were horsing around and I knocked over the stereo. Felt real bad. ”“Oh, I’m fine thanks, Chris” I stuttered, but clearly didn’t convince him. He asked after Sue, wondered where she was, wondered if he could get his wife to join us and go out for lunch, etc. It seemed he knew she was in, but was concerned why she hadn’t greeted him as she would usually do. I don’t know if I did the right thing, but I had known Chris a long time, and knew that he had secrets of his own, for example I knew that he sometimes visited prostitutes in the next town. So I ‘fessed up.