Chuck nodded his head and said, “I did my four years in the Air Force.”“Ah, what did you do?” Mike asked trying to keep the conversation alive...“I drove a bus,” Chuck answered with a shrug of his shoulders. He still drove a bus along a route in Washington DC.Mike didn’t know what to say after that declaration. Seeing that he was at a loss for words, Cathy said, “No swapping of war stories allowed.”Susan smiled weakly searching for a topic of conversation. After an awkward silence, she said, “We. ’ She put on a pathetic pleading face and batted her eyelids and I had to laugh. ‘Sure, no problem, I was only going to keep Lorraine company for the journey back from Gatwick.’ ‘Thanks! I’ll tell you what, I still owe you for ruining a nice meal out, lets all go out for dinner tomorrow to celebrate my new car and new job, my treat.’ ‘OK, I don’t know what time your Mum will be back though. I’ll go and suggest it to her.’ I went up to the bedroom, the bathroom door was open and I could hear. The anger was still there, a rift between mother and daughter that never healed. Ellie and Rose were never close as mother and daughter after that. Ellie was a daddy’s girl who lived for the time she could spend with me. When I picked her up for my weekends with her, she would just about glow with happiness. That lasted until I had to take her back to Rose. I could see her sink deeper into anger and sadness the closer we got to Rose’s house. Rose blamed me for Ellie’s sullen attitude, accusing. But thefootsteps halted, and she imagined Towser standing a few feet away, his headturned to regard his Mistrees, his nose intrigued by her unusual smell. Motionlesswith delicious fear, she felt his hairy neck brush her calves as he sniffedthe drying pool of urine she stood in, then his nose followed its scent upher legs and thighs. The pungent smell of her genitals attracted him, and hepoked his damp, cold nose enquiringly into her vagina, causing to recoil thefew inches she could with a.