"Oh, and I thought you were just being shy."She turned away from me, popping open the champagne and I realized my best friend was blushing.After we fi...nished the bottle I was getting weepy. My marriage was in a rough spot, I was tired and drunk, and I just needed a shoulder to cry on. I spilled out all my feelings, cried a bit, and leaned against her. She was holding me and telling me things would work out.Lyssa got me out of the tub, helped me dry off, and walked me back to the bedroom. She was. The past four weeks had been like a nightmare. She remembered the face of the ambulance driver when he'd been called that evening; their embarrassing story of a sex game gone wrong. She was so ashamed; the hospital A&E nurses applying jelly and tugging, their faces saying a thousand words. But she couldn't tell them the truth instead she had just laid there red faced. Now she had her disgraced mother still tutting to herself a month later. She'd not spoken to her husband for three weeks, made. Looking towards Dimitri he continued " He is out of it. We could drop him on the way. I have one or two friends who like to party. I could call them. " What do you say "? Part of me knew ii should stop things and call it a day, but after all the years of imagining and fantasizing about this sort of situation, I didn't want it to end. I found my self back in the lounge with Mack helping me get some clothes back on Elaine. We were just about to put her tights back on when I said ' Hold on'. I. This is love, Lia sighs to herself, still sleepyish, even if it shouldn’t be, even if it wasn’t what we agreed on. It’s love anyway. Normally this revelation, since she has it every time they’re together, would cause her to jump up, run to the bathroom and hide until she felt more in control or convinced herself of her own insanity. Somehow, though, it seems too much trouble to unravel her arms and legs and sheet, and what if Aidan wakes up? She’s awakened him twice already this night, and he.