Too much, too young

198os - I can't remember when my friend became unhappy but she did.

She seemed fine at the small school reunion which she helped to arrange when we were 21 or 22. Just in the local pub. It was good to see old friends again, some I hadn't seen since I was 16. We had all done different things - work, university. Only Elaine had married and had 2 small children. The strangest thing was the way our old friends who had stayed on at school seemed to really admire me and Elaine. They saw us as rebels because we had dared to leave school at 16 when the Headmaster had wanted us to stay on. It was strange really, you never know how other people see you.

So sometime after the school reunion, I don't know what time, my friend became unhappy. She loved her children but she found her marriage to be a drudge. If she had loved her husband I presume she stopped loving him. I don't know. All I know is that at some point when we went for our lemon chicken and white wine she started to tell me what she got up to on the days when the children were at nursery.

And it wasn't knitting.