I mean there I am - still shiverin - it was cold yknow - there I am an all she wants to do is 
give me a lecture on literary criticism - I didnt like that last page she says - it was too like 
what you did before - repeatin yourself she says - Repeatin myself - ha - shes tellin me - 
thanks for the critique Em I says - your welcome she says - Welcome - ha - so then she starts 
examinin the room - I know its a bit of a mess but what the - I dunno - I mean - how can I be 
expected - too much to do - I see things havent changed for the better here she tells me - its 
my work I said - my work - want to be careful she tells me - watch you dont get caught up in 
that ghost machine - I can look after myself - Really she asks - lookin as if she didnt know 
that - so why have you come here - I thought it was time to get some sense out of her - for 
once I thought - To see you she purrs - little girl act I thought - an I says - ok so now youve 
seen me - So why have you come - I dont know - she says - I just wanted to see how you were 
- How I am I tells her - Im not in the past tense - Well not for yourself she laughs - so I got 
out of the way of that and asks her again why come here - that got up her nose - Why do you 
want me to explain she goes - Because I need to know - I stands firm - and then she goes 
again - Well Im not tellin you - I hate explainins - Im not some character in your bloody book 
- she says - thats what you think I thought - Ive a mind of my own - she claims - Remember - 
not that Ive noticed I thought - then I changes tack an asks hows Harry - ok she says an hes at 
her moms tonight for once shes lookin after him an what a favour her mom thinks shes doin 
an then the story of her shoppin an what the neighbours are doin or sayin or what she thinks 
theyre sayin an God I think she aint half tedious an she really can sound paranoid when then 
she says Why did you ask about Harry its not as if hes yours - Just bein polite - I says - an 
anyway has she heard from his father - that was a real mistake to make - so I gets chapter an 
verse about his stupid antics an his pain in the arse of a family - no wonder we split up I 
thought an I was just right then when I spots this bite - on her neck - I mean it could have 
been a blemish but she never had one there an I know her skins unusual but it wasnt it was a 
bite an I knew then what I already knew that shed been seein others an it wasnt that I didnt 
know but it was seein there before me an I cant get the memory out of my head an I wished 
we hadnt split an I remembered I mean it all came back I mean it was us together I mean - 
Yes - No - I mean there I am - Alone.
  And her stood before me in my home.