“I’d love to.” The redhead smiles at the couple. She had never been part of a threesome. It had always seemed like something people in Hollywood...did. Now though, the thought of it excited her. They take her to their apartment. A corner loft above a small restaurant. Noel pours glasses of wine. Then they all sit on the couch, close together. Cynthia between the two young lesbians. As they drink and talk the woman touch the redhead more and more. Hands brushing her shoulders, squeezing her wrist,. When I reached closer to Sameer, I bent so as to thrust my bums sexily in Sameer’s direction, straightened up and returned. We all laughed. It was my hubby’s turn to ask me. Raj asked me something strange. He asked me to kiss Sameer on his cheeks. I looked at my hubby. He looked sternly at me and slowly winked. He wanted me to do it. I went to Sameer and placing my lips on his cheeks, kissed him. I was a bit embarrassed when Sameer enveloped me in his arms and hugged me tight; not too. However, unknown to me at the time, I was also standing by a small plate glass window, where people, can look into the pool underwater, and there was a man, who was a worker in the pool, had been standing there watching me, having my experience.When I left the pool with my father, we went into the shower room and this man was there in the shower, and he recognised me. Daddy left me to go get changed alone with this man, who waited a few minutes until he was sure he was safe, and he took his. She remembered snatches of her life from before: the archive, the books, her family, her home, her first love.She dreamed of old conversations with those she had held close, and had impressions of talking to some of them anew, confusion about their changed lives, reminiscences of old events, unfinished business.There was nothing new in her life now. Nothing ever changed, every day the same. It could have been weeks now, or months, or longer.How had it come to this?Her idle curiosity was just a.