Rachel was pleased, as she had bought a lovely outfit that day that she thought would be ideal for this evening. I pottered around downstairs for a wh...ile, making sure that I caught up on my e-mails and fed the dog whilst allowing Rachel the space to get ready. Just before 5.30 Alice arrived, having been brought home by her friend’s mum, who was obviously intrigued by Rachel’s ‘new man’ as she put it, because she did everything she could to find out about me and what I did, and gushed about what. Your funeral.”Despite his promise to “show Michael around,” Eric returned to his seat and began a battle with another member. Michael stared for a moment, watching the pretty brunette with thick glasses seated next to Eric. The way she was hanging on his every move, they had to be an item. Still, Michael could have sworn he saw something in her eyes. It could have been sadness, but it could also have been longing. Either way, Michael decided he wanted as little to do with Eric as possible;. “So, wow, this really is a very polyamorous web you’ve weaved here, isn’t it, laddie?” Maureen deliberately let her Scottish brogue come out to play a little more as she winked at me and kissed me hungrily on the mouth, “for now, just consider me a fuckbuddy, okay? I can’t promise to stay involved with this. I haven’t sorted out all of my feelings about it. But for now, a fuckbuddy.”“That works for me,” I agreed as Nate rung me up and all numbers were exchanged.“That goes for me, too, babe.. She knows who it is."Well, we were just thinking about going to..." Love one," cuts in Jo, looking up and grinning at Mr TDH. "We're on the Chardonnay." My pleasure," says TDH."I'm Mark, by the way," he says when he returns with a bottle of Chardonnay and 3 glasses. "You girls American, then?" I'm Jo and this is Martha," Jo smiles, "and yeah, I am American."Mark grins at Jo. The way she's just said I and not WE is confirming something he's already guessed from observing them last hour. Looks.