“It’s Sam, we’re trying to sort things out.”

“Is that why Frankie left?”

“Yes, she knew we were a lost cause but neither of us could admit it at first, Frankie left me a letter saying that she knew that I was still in love with Sam, Frankie and I were not what we had been in the past Jay and we both realised it was never going to be like that again but only Frankie had the guts to do anything about it.”

“Maybe she’s grown up at last!”

That’s rich coming from you Jay, someone who almost lost everything because of Frankie as well and you still have a lustful eye,” Cat looked at him with a scornful look, “you were lucky she took you back.

“I’ve grown up too Cat, ok I still have a lustful eye but that is it it goes no further and Rachel says as long as it’s not around when we are together I can look but not touch and that is how it will stay.  You and I have one thing in common Frankie got in to our heads and F***ed them around nearly losing us the most precious people in our lives.  It’s taken me a long time to gain Rachel’s trust again and I don’t intend to lose it again”

Cat walked in to the flat after a long day in work to find a pile of wet clothes sitting on the kitchen table and dishes in the sink, as much as she loved Tess the disordered life she led almost drove her mad sometimes, Tess appeared from her room with a face pack on and muttered something about moving the clothes to the airer in the bathroom, she gathered them up and trialed a line of drips to the bathroom.  Cat wiped up the puddle from the table and put the kettle on and shouted to Tess “cup of tea?”  There was a strangled cry of, “no thanks I can’t yet need to leave this on for another 20 mins.”

Cat sat down in the lounge and flicked the TV on.  She could think of nothing but Sam and the need to get back to the beautiful relationship they had had before she ruined everything, she thought of the passion they had shared on holiday the 24/7 company of the woman she loved.  “How the hell did I f*** it up? How did I allow Frankie to do what she did?”