Olivia

Erika and I hit it off after that night in the restaurant. So much so, that we’d agreed to meet up for coffee the following week. I could see that Alec and Erika were very much in love, even if they did have five kids. I admired them for that. I didn’t have any friends. I explained to them that once Mom got sick they all disappeared. They didn’t want to be friends with someone who talked about nothing but their mom’s dementia all day long and didn’t want to go out, not even for coffee. It meant I had to leave her alone, and I was afraid to do that.

As for inviting friends over, that wasn’t an option. I was afraid that Mom would turn on them and be afraid that there were people in her house ready to kill her. It’d happened a couple of times and I decided that it was selfish of me to want friends to come and visit. So, I stopped and slowly but surely, they stopped keeping in contact.

There was one thing that Ross wasn’t getting and that was another pretty young secretary. He’d given me