A Swedish Christmas Fairy Tale by A E Radley

Author:A E Radley [Radley, A E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912684168
Publisher: Heartsome Publishing
Published: 2018-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

23

How Different We Are

Emilia snuggled into Amber’s side and watched as she flipped through photographs on her phone, showing Emilia more of her day-to-day life.

They’d started off reading, but Amber soon became disheartened with the extra letters and the strange grammar rules that applied to Swedish. Emilia found she couldn’t explain why things were the way they were, she just knew what was right and what wasn’t.

After a short debate about grammar, and how some things just didn’t make sense, they’d put the books to one side. They leaned against each other and chatted in soft tones. Amber talked about her family, her childhood, her schooling, and university. She’d slid her phone out of her pocket and started to scroll through photographs of friends, holidays, family birthdays, and more.

Emilia soaked it all up. She couldn’t believe how much Amber did. One day she was skiing on a dry ski slope with her friends from an old job, the next day she was at an aquarium with someone she met at a bar.

Amber was adventurous and outgoing. Emilia was still in awe from having eaten pizza in the living room directly from the box. She wondered why she had never done it before. It was such a simple pleasure and one she could recreate easily, but it had never even occurred to her.

“Oh, ignore that one,” Amber said, swiping past a picture of a drunken night out.

Emilia’s cheeks heated up at the split-second sight of Amber in an intense lip lock with another woman.

“Your girlfriend?” Emilia asked. She knew she should leave the subject alone, but she was suddenly desperate to know. Amber had claimed she was single, but that was before she admitted she was bisexual. She wondered if that was a lie and Amber hadn’t wanted to out herself at first.

“Ex. I’m single, have been for way too long,” Amber confessed. “Work gets in the way.”

Emilia decided to remain silent. She’d been single for ages, and work had nothing to do with it. She wondered if Amber assumed that she was a never-been-kissed hermit. Suddenly she felt the need to let Amber know that simply wasn’t the case.

“Yes, it’s been a while since my last relationship, too,” she said.

Amber was still scrolling through photos of the night out, and Emilia wondered if she’d even heard her. She couldn’t repeat herself, even if she did so desperately want Amber to know that she’d not always been single.

“I envy you,” she admitted as Amber hurriedly scrolled through various pictures of parties.

“Why?”

“Because you have so many friends and you are always doing things with them,” Emilia explained. “Not that I’d want that, I’d need to be a different person to be able to cope with it. But it seems nice in theory.”

“I envy you,” Amber said, not looking up as she scrolled through endless dark pictures. “Sometimes, I just want to be at home. But then home is a cold and lonely place, so I end up going out. You’ve made your house your safe place, and it’s beautiful and homely and I can understand why you love it so much.

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