Awakening the Gods by Kristin Gleeson

Author:Kristin Gleeson [Gleeson, Kristin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: An Tig Beag Press

18

Saoirse

I let the door to the coffee shop close on my back, feeling the force of its pressure on me. It was like a spanking, a punishment for my lazy, irresponsible behaviour since I’d left uni. A punishment that had been meted out over the past several hours as I traipsed the streets of Dublin searching for a job. Well a job that I could manage. In the few places where I had got as far as putting in an application, I could tell by the looks on their faces when they saw that I had been let go from my previous job as a “barista” they really had no interest. I’d even tried to stretch the truth at one point, but I knew it would have been only a matter of time before they’d find out the reason I was fired. The “let go, my arse” look they gave me told me everything I needed to know about whether I’d get the job.

Now, this smack in the back was the final gesture and “will you ever cop on” warning I was going to get. It was time to give up. Wearily, I made my way to the bus stop and joined the queue of the late afternoon shoppers. My phone rang. I looked at it and saw it was Jilly. I smiled, feeling a little better.

“Hey,” I said. “How’s things?”

“Hey. How’s the job hunt going?”

I made a mewling noise.

“That good?”

“Worse.”

“You poor thing. What you need is cheering up. The session’s tonight. Why don’t you come? We can go back to mine after and really drown your miseries.”

I’d lost track of the last week or so. I knew I’d spent a few days getting lost in the sofa, watching films on my tablet and then finally, yesterday, had decided I would try for coffee shops like I’d promised myself the first days I’d been at the house. The session had seemed too much effort then, despite the texts and phone calls from Jilly inviting me over and inviting me out and about. I finally told her that I was job searching and wanted to focus all my time on that, when in reality any searching I was doing was confined to the box set menu on Netflix.

But now, the session and some time spent at Jilly’s afterwards seemed like the perfect choice to forget what had been a really shite day.

“You’re right,” I said. “That sounds just the thing. I’ll meet you there.”

“Fab! They’ll be overjoyed to see you. As I keep telling you, they miss you at the sessions. And last week you’ll never guess who showed up and asked after you.”

For a moment a flush of pleasure rushed through me as the completely irrational thought that Smithy might have gone there looking for me. That Maura would have told him where I played.

“Luke!” she said, a moment later. “Sexy, hot Luke. Asking for you. And wasn’t Eileen looking daggers when he did.”

Luke. The blond surfer. Larger than life, could play the uilleann pipes so they’d make you weep with the purity of it.

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