Pam - Part 2

Pam and I started seeing each other but since her and her ex-boyfriend were doing the same course it became very hard for us to go out without him bitching and sniping. We tried to ignore it but since they were living in the same house it became almost impossible to have a normal date.

She'd often show up crying at mine and always insisted I didn't go round to talk/thump her ex-boyfriend.

Still that made things very difficult because he tried to use a nasty trick that a lot of boyfriends do when they know their girlfriend is leaving them for someone else:

"It'd be okay if it was anyone but him."

It nearly worked, I'll tell you how another time.

Sarah - Part 1

Sarah was one of those long and impossible friendships that grow into a long, sporadic and eventually messy relationships.

Here's how we met.

She was in the year below me at high school and I was a big music fan. I used to swap tapes with a guy in her class. She was super cute and when I was down seeing him I always ended up talking to her.

Eventually after a few months another friend told me that everyone in her class thought I was only down there because I fancied her. This in its own way wasn't untrue but it also wasn't fact.

Eventually me and her ended up hanging out throughout school but at that stage we were just friends.