" Jesus! Why didn't you call me?" What? To tell you that I'd only had dinner? No dancing? No sex? You would have said that I needed to stay out longer... — learn more about these new guys in my life!" No. No, I wouldn't have said that," I told her. "But why did you go out with them on Friday nights? Those were our Friday nights! The night that we always made love!" It was Alicia's idea," Sally said."Alicia? You mean Gregory's sister?" Yes. Alicia is my friend. My close friend — the kind you're. “She’s stopped talking to me almost completely. Bare minimum needed to run the house.”“As you told her.”“Siân,” he said with an air of irritation, “I don’t mind her being professional. I’m professional at work with my PA, but we chat about things apart from work. She often asks how things are going at home. We discuss the weather, the news. It makes for a warm working relationship.”“Hmm,” she said thoughtfully, “that cool, eh?”“Bordering on icy.”“So she snapped at you a while back when you. I was in the room alone staring at the wall thinking of him I went into such a deep fantasy it felt real - Mr Thomson walked in and it was just us... oh no wait it was FUCKING real! His beautiful face pulled a cheeky smile when he seen me.“Come on lets go up to my room I have some stuff you could do for me”As I walked into his room he handed me a pile of tests and told me to add up the marks on them. Honestly its not what I had in mind. As I started counting up marks I noticed him put his. A time for happiness and good will to all men, they’re all just trying to enjoy themselves,’ the voice from beside me commented. I turned now, and saw a short but rather rotund old man, complete with white hair and what could easily be taken to be a false beard, sitting on the barstool beside me. To be honest, he looked like one of those shop Santa Claus’s, who had stopped for a drink on his way home from work. ‘Where the hell did he come from,’ I thought to myself. ‘I don’t remember noticing.