Let's Not Be Friends by Phoebe MacLeod

Author:Phoebe MacLeod [MacLeod, Phoebe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

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As I’m waiting on the platform at Parsons Green Tube station, I automatically unlock my phone and start scrolling through the property websites. Di, Kate, Maudie and I had a night out last night which was enormous fun, even though I had to be careful how much I drank, knowing that I had to be up early to get to Sevenoaks. Opinions were divided about whether I was doing the right thing looking at flats that were ‘so far away’, but when I showed them the alternatives, they understood.

I’m still not convinced I’m doing the right thing myself; although I’ve widened my search to include towns within half an hour of London, and I now have lots of financially viable options, I don’t know anything about any of these places, which makes me hesitant. Perhaps I should just wait until I’ve seen the flat in Sevenoaks and decide after that. I close the websites and, after a quick check of social media, log into the app store to see if there’s anything interesting to distract me and pass the time while I’m travelling. I’m not normally one for playing games on my phone, as I’m not really into that sort of thing, but I could happily while away some time if they have Scrabble or Tetris. I looked up the journey from Sevenoaks to Uckfield, and it’s going to take ages because I have to come back into London and get a different train back out, so I definitely need something to keep me occupied.

Most of the games don’t look remotely suitable and I can’t find Scrabble anywhere. I’m despondently scrolling through when something catches my eye. Nutsy the Squirrel is £2.99, has thousands of five-star reviews, and nearly thirty million downloads. This must be the game that Dad was talking about when I first got home. Thirty million people can’t all be idiots, so I pay the money and download the game. I launch it as soon as I’ve boarded the Tube, and it’s surprisingly entertaining. The first level is pretty simple; you have to guide Nutsy round his ‘world’, finding nuts on the ground. When you’ve gathered ten nuts, you have to find a suitable place to hide them. Once you’ve hidden a hundred nuts, the season changes to winter and you have to guide him around in the snow and find all the places where the nuts are hidden to stop him starving. It’s harder than it sounds, because all the hiding places are covered over with snow, so you spend quite a lot of time digging in the wrong places, which uses precious energy. I’m afraid poor Nutsy has starved to death twice by the time I reach Charing Cross.

I’m surprised to find that the train to Sevenoaks is absolutely packed, and it takes me a while to find a vacant seat. A bit of eavesdropping on my fellow passengers reveals that there’s some sort of festival in Hastings this weekend, so that’s presumably where they’re all going.

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