Running her fingers gently over my nipple. I love waking with her. It’s literally better than sex. She talks about lock down and how lucky we are to...have a beautiful garden and an area of outstanding beauty at the end of the road whilst some are trapped in city flats. Then she says ‘Think how lucky you are having me to have sex with.’‘Big yourself up why don’t you.’ I reply. I gaze into her eyes and smile as she looks coyly up at me. ‘I always count myself lucky to have you. In every respect.. “What the hell are you doing here? How do you even know where I live?” I asked, confused. “It’s on work files.” I have to admit, I asked a pretty daft question. “Answer my first question Sam,” I asked. “I'm confused Nic. You’re such an attractive women, with a heart of gold, and you play cupid, making everyone else happy and forgetting about your fucking self, not noticing what is in front of your god damned eyes!” he started to raise his voice in frustration. “And what is that?” I wasn't being. “So,” opened Mike, “tell me about yourselves and what brings you here today.”We gave a potted history of us, listing the Mitch incident as ‘difficulties leading to counselling’. One of the things to come out of the counselling was that we had drifted apart in our interests and that should be one area of reconnection. Part of it was joining each other’s exercise regimes, Lisa started running, though she was not up to my distance yet, I joined her at the gym. Living where we did south lead to. Just then my message tone went."Someone's popular today," said Sarah.It was from Mum. "We're having a family tea again tonight. Hope you canmake it. Danny his bringing his new girlfriend so I expect you to dressnicely again. Will Richie be joining us?"I started laughing out loud. Clearly Danny hadn't told Mum who his newgirlfriend was. In this reality, she'd known Kayleigh for years. It wouldalso appear that my brothers had kept their promise and not told myparents about the Richie.