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for more chicken and roast potatoes.
    ‘Leave room for the trifle,’ Marion says.
    ‘I love trifle,’ Luke says. ‘It’s my second favourite pudding.’
    ‘I love trifle,’ Jo says. She licks her lips and smiles at Ken. ‘All that cream.’
    Ken goes red in the face.
    After the meal Marion shows Ken and Jo their holiday photos.
    ‘There’s David in front of our cottage,’ she says, ‘and there’s me in front of our cottage.’
    ‘Don’t you have any of you together?’ Jo says.
    ‘No, because one of us was always taking the picture,’ David explains.
    ‘Shame,’ says Jo.
    Marion makes coffee. Ken sits next to Jo on the sofa and he tells her about his plumbing business.
    ‘There’s something funny about my toilet,’ she says, and giggles.
    ‘Want me to come and look?’ Ken says.
    ‘Yes,’ Jo says. ‘How about right now? We can have a night-cap.’ She looks at David, but he just gets up and starts clearing the cups away.
    ‘Thanks for the meal,’ Ken says.
    ‘No problem,’ Marion says. ‘I’m glad you came. Any time.’
    Jo, Ken and Luke go off next door. Marion shuts the back door and leans against it.
    ‘Problem solved,’ she says.
    But David frowns. ‘I don’t want to see Ken messed around,’ he says. ‘He’s not over Susan yet.’
    ‘Jo might not mess him around,’ Marion points out. ‘They might fall madly in love and live happily after.’
    David snorts. ‘And elephants might land on Mars,’ he says.
     

CHAPTER TWELVE
    Jo and Ken do soon become an item, which means that Marion and David do a lot more babysitting.
    One hot Saturday, David takes Luke to the park to play football. Marion goes shopping. On her way home, she decides to stop off at the park to see them. The park is packed and at first she can’t find them. The she hears David’s voice. They’re over by the fence. Marion goes to the Mr Whippy van, buys three ice creams and goes over to surprise them.
    ‘Yey!’ Luke says when he sees the ice cream. ‘Hi Marion!’
    ‘I thought you might be hot,’ Marion says.
    David kisses her cheek and takes his. ‘Ta for this,’ he says. ‘We weren’t expecting you.’
    ‘No we weren’t,’ Jo says.
    Marion jumps. ‘And I didn’t expect to see you,’ she says. Her melting ice cream drips down her hand. Suddenly she can’t eat it.
    ‘I’ll have it if you don’t want it,’ Jo says.
    Marion hands it over and watches Jo lick it with her sharp pink tongue.
    ‘I thought you were out with Ken,’ she says.
    ‘Later.’
    ‘But I thought that’s why we’re babysitting today.’
    ‘David likes to spend time with Luke. Don’t you David?’ Jo says.
    But David is talking to Luke and doesn’t answer.
    ‘And I like to watch them together,’ Jo says. ‘No harm in that, is there?’
    ‘I’m getting good,’ Luke says. He has a blob of ice cream on his nose. ‘Football’s my second favourite sport.’
    ‘What’s the first?’ David asks.
    ‘Sky diving,’ Luke says. He crunches his cone.
    David laughs and pats his head.
    ‘See. They get on like a house on fire,’ Jo says.
    ‘Come on,’ David says, ‘let’s get back to training.’
    Marion stands beside Jo while David and Luke kick about a bit. David teaches Luke to do a header.
    ‘He’s a natural!’ David shouts to them.
    ‘It’s good for Luke to have a man about,’ Jo says.
    Marion tries to be friendly. ‘Yes. And David’s good with kids,’ she says.
    ‘Shame,’ Jo says.
     
    Later Jo does go out with Ken. Marion gives Luke his tea in front of the TV while she and David have an Indian takeaway in the kitchen. Marion is just plucking up courage to ask David how often Jo has joined him in the park with Luke, when the door opens and Jo walks in.
    Marion waits for Ken to appear behind her, but he doesn’t. ‘Where’s Ken?’ she asks.
    ‘It’s over.’ Jo sits down and helps herself to a glass of wine.
    ‘Why?’ Marion says.
    ‘Don’t know.’ Jo shrugs. She picks a bit of popadom off