Rumours and Lies

This is a bit of a mystery the story of Alex and Serena. They met a year or so ago in a gay bar while out with mutual friends. But because of rumours and lies spread by one of their jealous but so called friends they were kept apart as they were never both single at the same time, or so they thought. Over the next year they both secretly fell in love with each other. Alex thought it was wrong to do anything about it, while Serena thought she was just wasting her time. They finally got together after Alex stole a kiss in the garden at midnight at a New year's eve party at a friends house which made the truth come out. Six months later they had moved in to a rented house together next door to their elderly neighbour Mary. In Serena's job as manager of a hairdressing,beauty and nail bar she would often hear stories and rumours from her customers about different people and she just used to take it all with a pinch of salt. But when the rumours started to be about Mary, her dead husband George and the family that owns the house that she now rents and shares with Alex she started to take notice.