Maybe this was her, knowing that her father had phoned. I answered, but it was Mary."I know George phoned you this morning, but I know he won't say wh...at really needs to be said. He's having some difficulty accepting what Beth had to say, he's offered every possible excuse for her, it's a fathers and daughters thing I guess." What happened, I know she was petrified to say anything?" I asked."Well she went to Church yesterday morning. It struck us as a bit odd, but she was so stressed we thought. ”I nodded, “Me, too, but there may be nothing, too. Nobody knows for sure what causes schizophrenia. And at this point, I’m actually betting on nothing, but I realize anything is possible.”“Why nothing?”“A gut feeling, I guess, combined with everything Doctor Mercer has said, and my talks with Angie.”“What can you glean in five minutes?”“A feeling.”“Are you thinking what I’m afraid you’re thinking?”“No. There is no chance of a relationship of any kind with Angie. Well, that’s not entirely true.. I remember I looked around the restaurant as the waiter took my jacket and totally failed to recognise him. I only knew who he was when a very attractive man stood up and came over to me. He had changed so much, as often happens of course. He was tall, quite slim but with a swimmer’s shoulders. Dark hair that is thinning but he wears it very short and it suits his face. Now I know that his physique is due to his interest in triathlons. He came over to me smiling and we shook hands and kissed,. She walked up to me and looked me over with her deep brown eyes then smiled.We started dating and hanging out together. I put a lot of life into our relationship and she put a lot of adventure into my sex life. We were both happy and spent enough time together that I felt we were going to spend our lives with each other. At least that was what I thought.Often I would stay at her place while she was out with her friends and when she came home we would have sex. That was the thing that kept me.
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