best to resist doing that so the three of them -A man, a woman and a child -would not get ahead of me. Was that Ken? Did I see correctly? As I looked at the features of the man- my eyes st

yes widen to saucers in shock when he saw me then he drew the woman beside him closer to him as if protecting her from me. What? What the fuck! "Hello, Ken," I said, trying so hard to keep any drop of emotion from my voice. "Hey, Gee" He said casually as if we were talking about something else that was not serious. He used the tone that he usually uses when he played with my hair while I lay across his thighs on the sofa as we watched Netflix and talked casually at the same time. I blinked my eyes in confusion. If I say I understood a bit of the scene playing before my eyes, I would be lying. The woman who had her black hair packed in a bun at the back of her head and was wearing a dull coloured long sleeved gown looked so uncomfortable that I felt that if I made one wrong move in her direction, she might start to run. She stared at me while holding the child who was looking at me with vivid blue eyes that were filled with curiosity. It was the same eyes that had made it so easy for me to fall in love with Ken. The way his blue eyes lit up with emotions whenever we were together...it was a source of immense pleasure to look at them. Now, seeing those particular eyes on the face of a child I never knew before hurt me deeply. I knew for real that something very absurd was happening. "Ken, who is she?" I asked, waiting for him to say something...anything for it all to make sense so we both can laugh over it later in the apartment that we shared. "Oh. So sorry, Gee. Forgive my manners. Honey, -" he turned