“Lexi, eh I need to ask you something,” Sam appeared nervous, Lexi felt her own nerves kick in, “How would you feel about us eh looking for a place together, a rental, just to see how things go, I mean I don’t think we will get on each others nerves but it’s totally up to you,” Sam’s smile was nervous and she was avoiding looking Lexi in the eye. Lexi reached out and lifted Sam’s chin she locked eyes with her and replied, “when do we start?” Sam broke in to a huge smile that lit up the room, she leaned over and kissed Lexi, she could feel herself becoming aroused and pulled Lexi into her arms. They had been going steady for 7 months now and spent most of their time in Sam’s flat, “I don’t want to stay here anymore I want to put the past behind me and start afresh with you in our own place.”

The flat hunting started in earnest, eventually they found a duplex apartment in a converted warehouse it had been completely altered on the side that looked on to the river a massive window filled the wall of the siting room looking out across the river to the other side of the city.  They moved in two weeks later and were loving it until a neighbour moved in down stairs, Frankie was back in Glasgow and had rented the smaller flat below them.  She had no idea they lived there until they all met in the lobby one morning on their way out to work.

“We have to move Lexi,” Sam could not entertain Frankie being in the same building.

“No Sam we don’t you have to, get over her being here, we have as much right to live here as she does, ok you hate her but we never see her so what is the problem?” Lexi knew the answer but Sam did not voice it.

Frankie had astring of women in and out of her flat but nothing could fill the gap Cat had left. She could see Sam had moved on but she hadn’t Ali had left her a month after the funeral but she didn’t care all she wanted was Cat.

Sam was going down the stairs as Frankie was coming up, they stopped and looked at one another, “Frankie,” “Sam, how are you?” “Wonderful thanks, you?” “No good not now,” “You’re pathetic Frankie, and I don’t blame you for Cat’s death, I blame her, and you need to too, she was the one with the choice, she made the wrong one in my book but that’s the ultimate reason she died. You sent the text but ultimatly she had the choice.” Frankie’s eyes filled with tears, “Like you care about me,”  “I don’t really, but you have to care about you,” Sam could feel a seed of pity forming in her, looking at this pathetic specimin infront of her.  She had heard from Cat that Frankie had had a difficult life and that trusting anyone was not her strong point.  She had also heard recently through Jay in London that Frankie’s mother had given up on her as she was becoming nasty to her too so Frankie was alone in the world.