A knock at the door a couple of minutes later ended the conversation, the three of us gathering at the dinner table. My two daughters sat opposite to me, piling their plate with their chosen dish and rice, biting into prawn crackers and sipping at their sodas. We made general conversation as always, the topic of before left alone for the time being.

Their phones starting blowing up not long after we'd eaten, no surprise their closest friends wanted to come around for a swim. When we'd bought the house fifteen years ago, the only thing we had added was a swimming pool. We just added that to the mortgage...