His parents had a shop just around the corner from where I lived and I had known him and been “best mates” with him for ever.We would walk to scho...l together and come back home again together.It was the summer of 1965 and I was a teenager.One day on the trip home from school, John was “busting” for a pee, we were near the old disused coal yard and he went behind one of the old sheds, (the ground around the whole yard was thick with a layer of coal dust), I had peep round the shed and saw him. Demons aren’t the marrying kind, not as a general rule of thumb. Are you ready for that?” Nicki interjected now.“I just ... want to be in Jack’s arms ... without giving up Herb ... and it would be a nice bonus to become a succubus, I think,” Pamela confessed now.“The pattern of your exes offering their souls to me continues. I don’t think that’s an accident. In spite of their alleged piety in some cases, your exes are all drawn to what Heaven and Jehovah would consider the dark side. Like calls. And, the opera. The corporation has these seats and four more here. The Queen is a patron and she may be in attendance in the future.”He took me to the main level where we received a flute of champagne, apparently, another perk of being season-ticket holders and contributors. He mingled and I stayed glued to his arm. He whispered that he seemed to be sought after with me on his arm. As it turned out, he was rarely seen with female companions and the women, at least, were too curious about me. He’d stayed in the other room all night. The grinding in my belly told me I was right. The truth loves me. It finds me and whispers in my ears. A glance at the clock told me it was ten thirty. Shit! Work, kids to school… I bolted only to see a note next to me on Peter’s side of the bed. ‘Darling, I thought you needed the sleep in. I’m taking the kids to school and have rung downstairs to tell them you are sick and I’ve left you in bed. Take the day and sleep! You’ll feel better for it. P.’ That.