Peter has my address." She paused. "I'd better go."I followed her out to the car."I hate to say it but Jenny's really nice. I'm happy for you," Vaness... confessed."Keep in touch," I replied diplomatically, knowing full well that she wouldn't.The car drove away and I returned to Jenny. We hugged, kissed and then went to bed and made love.A letter arrived from London that had been readdressed by Toby; it was Jenny's exam results. I passed it over to her and she ripped open the envelope. Her face. That very evening, Jessica hurried to finish her homework and scurried out to the detached garage to ask her older brother Todd some questions about those things her mother neglected to tell her. She trusted Todd because he was a sort of geek and didn't really know how to talk to girls. He really was more interested in his computer and the silly games he played ceaselessly night and day.He was stretched out on his cot looking at the TV he had built into the ceiling.She saw it was the silly. How sweet! I thought to myself momentarily, before I had my next thought: This was definitely not here five hours ago when I’d gotten up to get my water. ‘How sweet!’ turned into ‘How strange!’ She must have gotten up and gone out while I was asleep. Given all the events of the evening I knew she didn’t go out just to get the stuff for breakfast. And what was the ‘C’ for? Now I was starting to have a little bit of a freak-out. ‘C’ could only stand for Clint the guy who’d phoned her late last. It ran; Hotel Ambassador - ‘Luncheon by the Pool’.The advert had an illustration of an upmarket swimming-pool scene; attractive people in swimwear lounging by the poolside; a steward serving drinks and so forth. I idly imagined Rachel and I among those people at the poolside ... It was like a nickel dropping into the Jukebox ... and the tune began playing.What a lovely way for a mother to share her daughter’s last day of childhood I thought; and later, even Robert thought so too; although.