As Kelly prepared to go to work as a regional manager in recruitment, she bumped into her new neighbour Darren Cartwright, loitering in the communal hallway.
“I’d often find Darren busying himself in the hall outside his flat when I was coming or going,” Kelly says.
“He told me it would be an exclusive relationship so we couldn’t see anyone else, but it would be platonic so we wouldn’t have sex,” Kelly says.
“I got the impression that Darren had lived in the flat for a long time though and I didn’t want to get on the wrong side of my new neighbours,” she admits.
“I was 28 and it was the first flat I’d rented on my own and I couldn’t believe my luck,” Kelly, now 32, says.
