QUOTE : Happy ending<br /><br />After they had not made love<br />she pulled the sheet up over her eyes<br />until he was buttoning his shirt:<br />not shyness for their bodies - those<br />they had willingly displayed - but a frail<br />endeavour to apologise.<br /><br />Later, though, drawn together by<br />a distaste for such 'untidy ends'<br />they agreed to meet again; whereupon<br />they giggled, reminisced, held hands<br />as though what they had made was love -<br />and not that happier outcome, friends.