Goose by Dawn O'Porter

Author:Dawn O'Porter
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781471400643
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Published: 2014-04-02T16:00:00+00:00

Flo

‘So did you two kiss?’ asks Kerry as soon as we get to church. She slips in next to me on my regular pew. I wonder if I should tell her or not. Will it cause a weird atmosphere on Thursday nights? But I am in church, I can’t lie in here.

‘Yes, but just a little one,’ I tell her. I can’t wipe the big stupid smile off my face.

‘So is Gordon your boyfriend now?’

‘No. I mean, we only kissed once. But maybe. I think I would like that. He is great, isn’t he?’

‘I suppose so.’ Kelly turns to face forward and I see something sag a bit in her expression.

The vicar comes in, and Kerry focuses on him in such a way that I can tell she doesn’t want the conversation to carry on. I subtly scan the church with my eyes looking for Gordon, bearing in mind that he could be behind me. Renée says you should always behave like the boy you fancy is watching you, in case he is. I know when she has a crush on someone because everything she does is like a performance. I could never be quite like that, but I do pull my tummy in and stick my neck out so I don’t have a double chin, just in case.

Then I see the back of Gordon’s head. He is about four rows in front of me with his head down. He is praying. I think there is a good chance that he is always praying. I know that most people in the church are thinking about God while they are here, but Gordon always looks like his mind has left his body and he is actually with God somewhere. Sitting on a cloud, having a chat. He is so connected to him, I wonder if I will ever get like that. I think I’d like to, I think it would probably be quite nice. To get off earth for a bit and go float around somewhere else chatting away to the Lord.

At the end of the service Kerry and I go outside, but rather than talk to me she walks off with Matt. I don’t know what I keep doing to offend her, but I need to try to sort it out. There’s a tap on my shoulder.

‘Flo.’ It’s Gordon. ‘You get to sleep all right after I dropped you home?’

I want to tell him the truth. That I lay awake for hours thinking about him, that I fancy the pants off him, that I wished he had kissed me properly. But I don’t, of course. I tell him I got to sleep just fine.

‘What are you doing now?’ he asks. I presume he wants to do something so I tell him, ‘Nothing,’ but then he says he is going to play an acoustic set to the parents and kids at Sunday school, and I wish I had made up something exciting that I was doing too. Even though there is nothing.

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