Meg's Casebook

Joe and Fran were made for each other, but they drove each other mad. Both loved to shine and were forever trying to out-razzle-dazzle each other.

When Joe was offered a job on the other side of the country – he was a DJ – it seemed a smart way out of their troubled relationship.
Not so, they missed each other too much. A month later he begged Fran to move in with him. But still it didn’t work. They both felt trapped by love, increasingly wretched.

When Joe came home at dawn one day, it was with a curious mixture of relief and sadness that he saw Fran had packed her belongings and left. At noon, he was still sitting there, bewildered, taking in the emptiness of his flat, his life.

The telephone rang and a sexy voice whispered. “Hi, I’m your new neighbour. I’ve just moved into the flat above yours. Why not come up for a coffee sometime.”

Sometime? He was upstairs in an instant. “Can’t live with you,” he smiled, as Fran opened the door of the flat. “Can’t live without you.”