Getting up off the bench, I made my way to the shower door. ‘I’m perfectly fine, Thomas. Just a little tired.’ He opened the door and walked in...to the bathroom, coming to stand in front of the cracked door. Amazed, I watched his cheeks turned a slight pink. ‘Dear Jesus, she’s beautiful!’ he gasped out loud. I laughed. ‘Well, while you’re sitting there ogling over me, why don’t you mosey your way into the shower with me and save a little water tonight?’ Without hesitation, he lowered his lips. I looked up and got a terrible shock when I saw Beth, Mom's best friend and next-door neighbour, standing in the doorway to the lounge watching us with her mouth wide open in surprise.I was about to pull away from Mom when Beth smiled and placed a finger over her lips to indicate that I should remain silent. Mom and Beth did a lot of activities together and often got together in the morning, after husbands and kids had left, for coffee and gossip. Because we were so engrossed in our activities. 1003 Mai janeko kaha mai vaha pahuch kar door bell bajai to door khula hi tha mai andar gaya lekin vaha koi nahi tha To maine yaha vaha dekhna shuru kiya itne mai mujhe bath room se awaz ayi ” aa gaye aap baithiye mai nahakar aayi” mai vahi bed par baithe gaya thodi der bad wo ladies naha kar bahar aayi mai use dekhkar chauk gaya aur bohot dar bhi gaya wo ladies koi aur nahi manisha bhabhi hi thi maine unse kaha bhabhi aap aur mai wahase jane laga but unhone mujhe rok liya aur kaha vishal mujhe. .." "You two don't love each other any more, do you?" she said. In that moment, wrapped in her fluffy pink bath robe eating pancakes with bacon sizzling on the stove, she was like a child with parents who were beginning to fall apart from each other. She had always been the innocent one, the one that loved through think and thin, through the angry fuck by the roadside, through the restaurant fiasco, through it all she was there, loving both of us. We had caught her in the middle of our hating.