The story begins with Jessica. I first met Jessica when I worked in Manchester in the UK on a scientific research project. I was a postgraduate at the time, just finishing my thesis. I felt the need to escape to the countryside for a week and volunteered to help out on a fieldwork exercise based in a farmhouse in an isolated village in The North Pennines, a range of mountains and hills to the east of Manchester.  Jessica...

When Tracy calls to see if I want to go to the pub, I quickly get my coat. Always fun, we have a lot to catch up on. After two wines she disappears to the toilet, and I get up to go to the bar to order new drinks. Suddenly I notice Ashley and I quickly turn around. I don't think he saw me. I am shocked, I feel a tickle in my abdomen. It has been a long time since I saw him. The sex was certainly not the reason that we are...