He Was A Liar - Daniel Hurst by Daniel Hurst

Author:Daniel Hurst [Hurst, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daniel Hurst
Published: 2021-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

22

My sister’s offer of more wine was gratefully accepted and then some, and that’s why it’s now approaching midnight as I stumble out of her house and make my way to the car on the driveway. But it’s not my car I’m heading towards because I’m clearly in no state to drive. Instead, it is Alex’s motor because he has offered to drive me home this evening so that I won’t have to pay for a taxi. I say offered, but it was actually more that he was told by Ellen to take me home, but either way, I make it into the passenger seat of my brother-in-law’s car before giving my sister a wave and watching Alex come and join me in the vehicle.

Ellen closes the front door to their house as Alex starts the engine, and I lean back with my weary skull on the headrest of my seat as he reverses us off his driveway and gets us moving along the dark, quiet residential street.

It will take less than ten minutes to get to my place from here, and the taxi wouldn’t have cost very much at all, but it was nice of Ellen to offer me a free ride home, although I’m not sure her husband was too thrilled about it. It is late, and he has work in the morning, so I’m sure he would rather be tucked up in bed than driving through the chilly streets of our hometown, but he was too polite to say no and call me a taxi instead. He didn’t seem thrilled either when he got back from the gym earlier and found Ellen and I had opened a second bottle of wine, but we needed our girly chats, so he had made himself scarce upstairs for the next few hours. But now the night is coming to an end, and what a night it has been. Not only did I get plenty off my chest, but Ellen shared some things with me too, and finding out that her marriage wasn’t as perfect as I thought it was certainly came as a shock to me.

Being told what Alex did with that woman from his office is definitely the reason why I feel a little awkward around him now as I sit beside him while he drives me home. I would have thought the wine I had consumed tonight might have made me less edgy around him, but as we go on, I find myself feeling more and more like I need to say something to him about it. Is that wise? Definitely not, but then how many wise decisions were ever made after several glasses of wine?

I’m just about to tell him that I know what he did to my sister when he tells me that he misses Paul and was thinking about him earlier today.

‘You were?’ I ask him, and he nods his head as he turns the steering wheel, and we round another corner.

‘Yeah, I was just thinking about that barbecue we had last year.

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