Buzzing Easter Bunnies by Nick Spalding

Author:Nick Spalding [Spalding, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Notting Hill Press
Published: 2014-03-26T05:00:00+00:00

'What are you doing over the weekend?' Matt asks excitedly, the second he's in the house. It's Thursday night, the end of my first day off, and I'm already more relaxed than I have been in weeks. The glass of red wine I have clutched in my hand has everything to do with this.

'Absolutely nothing,' I reply with a smile. 'A big massive pile of fuck all.'

'Ah, right. Great!' Matt claps his hands together and favours me with an expectant grin. 'Have you ever been to Scotland?'

'What?'

'Scotland? Have you ever been there?'

'No. Why?' I ask warily, having a feeling I know what's coming.

Yep, out come the tickets from his pocket.

Crap.

It's an absolutely lovely gesture, but I'd much rather just swan around the house for four days in my dressing gown.

'I've booked us a weekend away!' Matt says excitedly.

'Really!?' I exclaim, trying to sound happier than I actually am.

'Yeah! Surprise!'

I put down the wine, wrap my arms around Matt and give him a big kiss. 'Thank you. It's a lovely present,' I tell him, maintaining my show of enthusiasm.

My faked excitement is replaced by the genuine sort when he shows me the place we'll be staying at on his phone. It's a five star spa called The McInnish Resort, which nestles in the Highlands next to Loch Lomond. If the pictures on the website are anything to go by, my relaxing weekend will now be accentuated by an infinity pool, a cocktail bar the size of my entire house, and the kind of beautiful scenery that will literally take your breath away if you climb high enough up it.

'How much did this cost?' I ask in disbelief, as I take in the majesty of the Nordic sauna, and a la carte restaurant.

'A fair bit!' Matt says, with a slightly wild look in his eyes.

My new boyfriend works in a relatively small I.T company, so my next question is to be expected. 'How can you afford it?'

Matt rocks his head from side to side. 'Well, I kinda sold a couple of my posters on Ebay. The Japanese Star Wars one, and the original Toho Godzilla one from the fifties.'

I know as much about sci-fi memorabilia as I do yak farming, but even I'm aware of how much rare posters like that can sell for. I feel tears pricking my eyes. I'm well aware what those posters meant to him, so the fact he'd sold them to take me away for the weekend is amazing.

'Thank you, Matt. Thank you so much.' No need to feign any emotions this time around.

'You're welcome! I'm looking forward to it myself. There are lots of walks you can do around the area. Plenty to see and do.'

While the prospect of tramping around the Scottish countryside doesn't fill me with as much joy as the Nordic sauna and a la carte restaurant, I'm still very excited about my first visit to the Highlands. If Matt wants to take me on a walk through scented pine forests and across

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