‘I know. Ruth called me. You’d better sit down.’ I didn’t have to be too perceptive to understand I wasn’t going to enjoy the next few minut...s. ‘Andy, I’m sorry, but I will be filing for divorce this week. I’ve discovered I’m no longer in love with you and now that the children are adults, I feel I can start a new life that might bring me more happiness.’ ‘Is there someone else?’ ‘No … I wouldn’t do that to you. I’ve just come to the point where I don’t see us carrying on in this loveless,. There were far more attractive girls at the party than me, why was he paying me so much attention? We made small talk for a while, joking about tutors and friends. He put his arm around me pulled me into his chest. "You are far more beautiful than you think." he whispered in my ear. I turned towards him ready to fall into his lips when Jane crashed over us, running for the door. She rushed outside just in time to throw up in a plant pot, we followed her knowing that we were the least. I finished it inn one sip. As I looked out I understood that the rain is going to stay for some time. She too seamed to have realized it from the look of her face. She closed the rear door to prevent the spray of rain water from getting inside. With the rain set, it became dark inside though it was morning. She lightened up the kerosene lamp and sat on the bench beside a table. She was gazing at me. I looked around her house unable to stand her gaze. As I said earlier, there wasn’t much things. He had trouble at secondary school, he was different and this was the age range where everybody was learning to be different by being the same. Every boy had to support their own football team so on Monday they could happily rib each other about the Saturday results; but to NOT have a team was to be too different. Every pupil had favourite teachers and least favourite ones. They might all be different combinations because everyone was different, but they had to have these preferences. Simply.