...It was you...arrived home early from work...wanting to surprise me. I was so carried away with the music that I didn't hear your car in the drive ...r your key in the door. "Honey, I'm sorry I startled you" you said "I was standing watching you for a little while, loving the way you were having such a good time and I couldn't help myself, I had to kiss your shoulder". "You're very lucky I dropped the knife baby...I could have hurt myself, or worse...hurt you!" You held me by the shoulders,. She tried to busy herself, not to sit by the phone or watch the door, not to wait for him to come. She fixed dinner, enough for two just in case, and sat down to eat. Slowly she lifted the fork to her mouth, barely able to choke down the few bites she forced herself to eat before the plate went into the garbage, and still there was nothing. The emptiness of her little apartment depressed her. She turned the television up in an attempt to drown out the unbearable silence. At eleven o’clock, she. .. towel?” Jenny gave Olivia a perplexed look. Olivia nodded towards the entrance as the lady joined us.“Good morning, girls,” the lady said in greeting. “I hope you slept well last night.”“Last night was great,” I responded. Jenny and Olivia agreed. We headed into the shower room and cleaned up. Time for girl talk was over.I sat with Jordan at breakfast. Dad joined us as usual. He seemed to like Jordan. They both talked about fishing, a common interest they shared. The group marched off to the. I could see her face fill with colour and she looked down at the floor.“No, no, no.” she said, “I won’t do that, sorry.” Her face was bright red, it seemed off that she was apologising to me. She was kind of smiling though.“I won’t bother you any more, I’m sorry, I’m not some creep. I just, well I, I don’t know.” I was flustered and shocked at myself, my heart was still pumping like mad, it felt like my face was probably as red as hers. “OK, one last thing and I will go, can I ask you how much.