helena and i had found the album one afternoon and paged through it wondering what had happened to these people , why had they vanished and melted away and had our parents really ever looked like that , young and dad a bit goofy , but smiling , and mum in that orange bikini , not one of those little ones , hers went all the way up to her tummy button , but still a bikini and dark glasses that slanted like a cats eyes .