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She left her mother’s house and no one knows where she is.” Wes was in the middle of taking out the garbage, a rare event in our flat where a huge plastic garden bin passed for a kitchen tidy. It was often - [passionfruit time](http://www.ashrehn.com/stories/passionfruit-time/) - Sometime between the last of the bourbon and Coke and being woken by the sound of Michael throwing up, a seed is planted that will grow to become your life. As you lie there on the sand, the future is not something you are thinking much about. The sun is coming up and no one - [flawless](http://www.ashrehn.com/stories/flawless/) - We are free now. Floating in the green phosphorescence of sunlight diffused through water. Our bodies, warm-blooded, writhe and twist as sea creatures. Below us and around, the other fish are pieces from a forgotten jigsaw. They hover and dart with cautious indifference. We are welcome to share their world. We both break the surface - [feisty](http://www.ashrehn.com/stories/feisty/) - WOMBAT "Triple word score.” “Eats shoots and leaves,” Clair mutters. I snicker. It’s a joke we have about her neighbour. Clair is old enough to be my mother but I could never be like this with mum. I think my mother is jealous that we have become such friends. We soak up the sun. 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