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432 pages, Paperback
First published March 10, 2016
‘Then you’ll get the train or the bus back. And you’ll try again another day. I don’t know why you’re in such a desperate hurry to get this list done so quickly.’
So I get Joseph back before he gets another girlfriend.
‘If it was me then I’d be spreading it over the year. What are you going to do with yourself when it all comes to an end?’ asks Sian.
Spend my days with Joseph who’s going to come back to me of course. Duh.
‘Abi, I am so mad at you. Have you any idea how it feels to find out your best friend’s been lying to you for months?’
She stands up and slips her bag on her shoulder.
‘Please, Sian, let me explain.’
‘I thought you already had, and FYI it wasn’t good enough.’ She sighs and gives me a look of disappointment. ...
She walks over to Pete without so much as a backward glance. She whispers to him and he finishes the rest of his pint and pulls on his coat. I watch them say their goodbyes to the others, before they walk out of the pub.
I have never known her to be so angry. It’s even worse than the time she had to interview Katie Hopkins for her newspaper.
‘So are you getting back together with Tammy? If you’re going to watch her race,’ I say, trying to deflect his anger away from me.
I’m staring at his almost empty plate, I can’t bear to look at him whilst I hear what he has to say.
‘No. She hasn’t taken the news of our break-up well and I think she needs me to be there for her – just as a friend, nothing more.’
He pulls out his wallet from his back pocket and throws some money down on the table. He’s somehow managed to finish the rest of his sandwich in record time, even for him. I know I should be pleading with him to stay so that we can talk but all I can wonder is how he’s not got indigestion.