“If you want to know all you have to do is ask.” stated Tina

“And spoil all this fun we’re having. I don’t think so.”

“But you do want to know, don’t you?”

“OK. I give in. Of course I want to know. After all it’s important to me whether all that good advice I gave to actually came to anything.”

“Well, as you know we went to the park and while we were there she told me that she felt like she was falling in love with me all over again and she said it in the most heartfelt way, like everything rested on me understanding how important that was to her and when I looked at her it was like something had changed and I was seeing her as I had always seen her before, as the woman who was the centre of my world. Then I let her hold me.”

“And what was that like?” asked Kate, smiling.

“Like everything was right with the world.”

“That must have really been something.”

“It was. I could feel all the anger just draining out of me and for the first time I really knew that no matter what we had both done to destroy our relationship we were both going to put it right together.”

“Did you tell her that?”

“Last night I told her that I thought it was time that we started to rebuild.”

“How did she react to that?”

“She asked me to stay the night with her, in a let me hold you all night kind of way”

“As opposed to a let’s have raw animalistic sex kind of way?”

“Exactly.” confirmed Tina.

“So did you? Stay the night I mean?”

“Yeah, and I have to tell you Kate, that was the best night’s sleep I’ve had in months. On the way to her room she held my arm, gently, but in a way that said please don’t change your mind on the way here, not that there was much chance of that happening and once we were inside her room I just felt so loved. Like there was nothing more important to her than what was happening to us right then.”