‘Did you tell your friends you were with me today?’ asked Helena curiously.

Alexa looked away, she could lie so easily and say yes but she was determined not to lie to Helena, she lied so much to everyone else in her life.

‘No..I didn’t but I should have, it was silly of me, it was just easier not to explain.’

‘I understand, you are in a difficult situation.’

‘I told them I was at the hospital,’ Alexa admitted and Helena laughed.  ‘So I spent my morning working with your dean and the afternoon leading you astray.  How did you manage to get the time off?’

Alexa shrugged.  ‘I gave the consultant a hand job.’

Helena’s mouth opened wide in horror and Alexa cracked up.  ‘Oh my god, I can’t believe you thought I would do that!’ she giggled.  ‘I offered to work a night, relax.’

‘You’re an interesting girl Alexa,’ said Helena, knowing humour, brains and beauty was a rare combination.

‘So what do you want to do when you graduate?’ Helena asked

Alexa thought hard.  ‘I’m not sure in the long term I’ve been thinking about less conventional ways to use my degree.  I read about this doctor who got the government to change the entire law about female circumcision in an African country by educating people village by village.  I think that is just amazing don’t you?’

I think you’re amazing thought Helena suddenly and felt a shudder sweep through her heart.  ‘Yes amazing,’ she said.  ‘It’s getting late we should probably pack up.’

‘Here we are m’lady’ said Alexa as they pulled up outside Helena’s hotel and pretended to tip her hat in mock reference to Helena’s chaffeur.  ‘So what do you think did I do as good a job as your regular driver?’

‘Oh definitely.  I’m going to call Lance and fire him as soon as I get in,’ she jested.

The first awkward moment of the day passed between them as they realised that it was time to separate and they had no plans to meet again.  Alexa knew that Helena was busy, she also knew that in 4 days she would be flying back to America but it just didn’t seem right that this would be their last meeting.  Helena searched for the right words to say, she wanted to ask Alexa in, she wanted to see her again but how could she without blurring the lines of their unlikely friendship?  Oh did it feel so wrong to do the sensible thing to just get of the car and not look back?  She was leaving the country in 4 days, there was really no point in getting to know each other any better.