So I was brave and knocked. I didn't know what I'd say. I just... wanted to see him and understand what I'd really meant to Fred and why he'd asked about me.

"Come in!" I heard his voice from the other side—already sounding intimate to me.

I put my hand on the knob and opened the door. And then I saw Fred sitting in a chair with a naked woman in front of him. They weren't on the bed but on an armchair beside the round wooden table, which was covered in white powder I knew exactly what it ...