Lorraine remembered reading of a woman whose voice alone had suchseductive qualities that even a statue would feel the need for a coldshower, and she ...hought that Melody's voice may be even more seductivethan that, as she felt an awkward dampness between her legs.Then suddenly Melody giggled, and things changed.Melody no longer looked like a goddess, but a more human kind of pretty.In fact she resembled her former male self, like she was now the twinsister to the person she used to be.She also. Shrugging, my gaze traveled up through the mirror. I’d chosen medium sized silver hoop earrings and applied just enough make up to look classy, not overdone. I’d scrunched and dried my beyond shoulder-length hair and pinned it up, leaving little curly tendrils down around my face. The second shrill ding dong knocked me out of my self-examination, and I rushed for the door. Arriving breathlessly, I threw the door open without bothering to see who it was. I knew it’d be Drake. And it was. ‘You. You just want me to say more so that you can be certain that it is I, who know what I mean," Her eyes sparkled with knowing humor, "I am not going to spell it out in front of your cab driver. He stands nearby that he may overhear outside, but I will say this; when someone doesn't go where they are supposed to, yet they land back here, people like us know by just looking. There's a glow that shines through you. Almost like a fantasma... no that is the Spanish word... what is the English... oh,. She lay down on a deckchair in the sun and proceeded to rub tanning oil into her arms. I looked Zane straight in the eye,“Err, you were saying…..”We both laughed and Zane offered me a beer.Later we all sat at the table to eat. Loretta sat opposite me and next to Zane. Lunch was delicious – one of summer’s simple pleasures. I poured Loretta another glass of merlot.“So what are you thinking of studying at uni,” I asked her.“Art.”“Oh ok. Well, there are several good courses including theory,.