Suddenly, the roles became reversed, and I found myself confused."Maria, will whether or not we want to do that make your decision if we break up?" sh... cried. "I don't want to lose you. You are everything to me."She slowly wrapped her arms around me, and I did the same. We held each other not as lovers, but as mother and daughter. I couldn't see Rose and Kate, but I could only imagine that they were eyeballing us and probably with tears flowing down their cheeks too.We caressed one another's. "Just ordered a taxi for me and went. I was worried for him at first - I realised something had happened. I didn't sleep that night - it was pretty bad. Then he rang me - just said he needed time. I'd no idea where he was - he'd gone to Northumberland - walked the hills for three days. That's really all I know. He rang again on Monday, telling me he'd cancelled our tutorial. He must have rung Vera too, because she had to cancel lectures, tutorials, meetings, everything. I'd been holding out for. The trees, rushing by, were lit up from the light of the sparkling stars. The sound of the tracks, hypnotized you.Once again, your mind went to wondering, as you stared out at the heavens. That's why you didn't hear the car door open and close behind you. A shadow crossed over your shoulder. A cowboy hat! You froze, you couldn't move a muscle. You felt the fingers, touching your outer thigh. They were just under your nightgown, pushing it up till the hand rested on your naked hip. The warm. ’ I informed her that in my opinion I had nothing to apologise for, but wanted to know why she was riding around with asshole Alfred. I could see idiot Alfred didn’t like that comment, but he sensibly didn’t say anything. Angie then got snarky as she said, ‘At least Alfred paid attention to her and knew how to treat a girl right. He also doesn’t ignore requests from her when she really wanted to do something.’ That sort of took me back a bit, because this selfish attitude was something new for.