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Summary
Best friends forever they had vowed.  Fern starts to want more than 'just friends' but her new feeligns insn't the only change.  With all the 'fishy' things that keep happening, her complicated romantic life is just the start of her problems...

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The samll white picket fence had always seperated out house, but the physical boundary had done nothing to keep us apart ever since the day I was born.  Now, it was all that was keeping us together.  We sat side by side on my front doorstep looking at the grave, neither of us wanting to face what was going on.  This day had been drawing closer like a black cloud looming, threatening rain, and now the icy cold downpour was upon us, and the loss of my lifetime best friend sent a chill through my cotton t-shirt, despite the August sun.

I knew something was up.  Denny, Sam's mum, had been upbeat since June, when her latest love, Dave had proposed, telling her that this relationship was more important than all those preceeding i.  That's what she told mum, her eyes staring down into a mug of tea in our kitchen, slowly stirring her sugar spoon round in a spin of thought.

"Are you going to drink that or spit out what on your mind?"  Mum asked.

Denny signed, "I was hoping you'd already know."

You should know that my mum isn't like ordinary mums.  She isn't just observant but psychic.  My mum is that woman at those spiritual fairs who tells your fortune.  With her long dark hair and loose flowing clothes, she looks the part too.

"Don't make me dig out my crystal ball..."

Then Denny took a deep breath and shared her good news, "Dave and I want to live together  In a home of our own."