For the Sake of My Friend

When individual interests clouded an excellent relationship, good love often turned to mind games among best friends.

Suspicion and oversights among four couples played out at a leisure pub in Milton Keynes. It began with a simple gesture to help a friend out of a difficult situation. The turn of events revealed everyone's tendency.

Adrienne and her husband did not plan that it would end so soon. The letter from the military headquarters was left open on the table. A dark blue line across the indicator showed a positive sign. His baby was four weeks old in her womb, and he might never see his baby. The letter on the table only mentioned he was missing in action. He probably lay in peace in a faraway land, Iraq.

All came back to her in a haze of grief. She packed a few items in the Gucci travelling bag her husband bought for her last birthday. Adrienne couldn't control the tears.

She was leaving Milton Keynes, the beautiful quiet city she had loved so much, returning to where she was born, her parent's home in Watford.

Would she find happiness again?