The Best Thing I Never Had

by Erin Lawless

obstacles and (usually) overcome them. When I’m not doing that I read absolutely everything I can get my hands on, spend an inordinate amount of time in pyjamas and run a fun-but-informative blog

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upon a time kissed me in the snow, when he wasn’t supposed

excited, sure, but she couldn’t really say that it had been ‘unexpected’. She stretched restlessly in bed the morning after – one day into being twenty-six years old, one day into being engaged – watching the dust dance in the slant of dawn from the skylight window. She watched as the

her housemate opening the front door for them, when they both caught sight of the post-it note at the same time. Nicky had dropped one of the carrier bags to the ground and reached to peel it off the glass of her window; a little blue ink heart on the yellow square, stuck facing inwards to her bedroom. And, just in

of the TV. Leigha immediately made inarticulate sounds of protest through a mouthful of dinner. ‘Miles?’ Harriet asked. Nicky didn’t bother to take the phone off charge, instead reading the text message standing slouched against

girl. ‘That dinner was great. Feel free to come back, any time!’ he teased. Nicky laughed. ‘Oh, I’m sure you’ll be seeing me around!’ She paused at the head of the stairs that led down to street level and the flat’s front door. ‘We’re having a party, me and the girls