I was about to ask him why he seemed so sullen when the taxi driver came in and asked for me, so I paid for my wine, thanked the barman for the conver...ation and said goodnight. I wasn't expecting to ever come back here but I took notice of the address just in case.Monday morning, back at work nothing seemed the same. It was as if my going out with my colleagues had shown them a side of me they didn't know. Every time someone was close to my office they would put their head in the door, step in. He even sent me a few pictures from his cell- phone. In one of them I could see the two coworkers kissing.I waited until Ann-Christine's train was past the first of its few stops before I phoned her twin sister, who sounded very surprised about my call. I told her, "Dear Marie Louise, I'm asking you for a favor because I've got an urgent job in your town early tomorrow morning, and I'll be there for a few hours. Can I spend the night at your house? Only one night and I can share the spare room. He is just staying there until he completes his move to this area.’ The woman pictured is his fiancée and why he is switching jobs and moving here. On top of that, the traffic in the airport is a mess, how could Mary follow anyone through that?’ ‘After the truth came out, she told us she must have made a mistake and followed the wrong man. Obviously, she lied.’ Stated Nancy ‘She was always a twisted bitch and she wanted to have some excitement. We were so concerned about Jim and the aftermath,. I looked up at him with tears filling my eyes and he nodded, seeming to understand what had just happened. After that moment he even gave me the occasional warm hug, and I sucked up all of his kindness and caring and put it in the brittle treasure chest of happiness that I was building in the center of that new, living me. With my newfound ability to appreciate human closeness came other feelings, forgotten for a long time, feelings that scared me even more. The way a short hug from Josh.