The Wake-Up Call

by Beth O'Leary

Perhaps she will take revenge later – she likes to do that sometimes.

‘You once expressed a desire never to come within two metres of me, “pandemic or no pandemic”,’ he says. ‘I am just respecting your wishes.’

We are all misled and misdirected from time to time. Perhaps there really is no shame in that, as long as we wake up to it before it’s too late to change.

‘I’m not inviting you in. I’ve watched way too many episodes of The Vampire Diaries to fall for that.’

(Why is it that when men sweat, it’s sexy, but when I sweat, I look like I’ve been crossbred with a tomato?)

trying to concentrate on the television. I’ll just quit my job, I think to myself. I’ll just never go back to work, so I never have to see him again after sending that message and not getting a reply.