Lies Like Love by Louisa Reid

Author:Louisa Reid [Reid, Louisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Action & Adventure, General, Fiction, Family, Thrillers, Suspense
ISBN: 9780141343204
Google: y-nJAgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2014-07-02T23:00:00+00:00

Leo

He hadn’t been sure if London was the best choice, but when he saw Audrey’s face he knew he’d done the right thing. Pulling up outside his parents’ place, he felt nervous again.

‘Here we are. We can dump our stuff.’ He led the way up marble steps to the imposing front door. The house was all lit up, even though no one was home.

‘What is this?’

‘Well, this is where my parents live sometimes, when they’re over here, if they’re not using a hotel. Which for some reason my mother often prefers. I think it’s because then she doesn’t have to do any cooking or any domestic duties whatsoever.’ He locked the car and pulled Audrey towards the building. ‘My mother, as you will see when we go inside, has transcended the domestic.’

‘Oh. That’s pretty weird.’

‘Agreed. But find me someone who isn’t.’

‘It’s cool though. I’d like to transcend the domestic, or whatever. Basically, stop doing all the flipping jobs is what I think you mean.’

‘Exactly. When I’m a rich man, not just a rich man’s son, I’ll buy you a robot to do all your chores. Or maybe we’ll just travel the world; no possessions, no ties. Just you, me and wherever we want to wander.’

Audrey kissed him on the cheek, fast. ‘I’ll be there,’ she said. ‘Don’t go without me, OK?’

She held his face in her hands and he wondered if they both saw the same thing: an aeroplane, Audrey in a white dress and sunglasses. He’d be in jeans and a vintage leather jacket. He saw them holding hands above the clouds and the endless opportunity of their forever, and wondered if he could fix it for this summer; they should find a way to make something like that happen, some time soon. Anything was possible.

He led her into the hallway, downplaying it all the way. Audrey gawped: the baby grand, white carpets, glowing art. He knew it sang of money, style, luxury. But to him it wasn’t really a home, not like Sue’s place. As a kid he’d played quiet games, contained and controlled – moving his little cars sedately through the thick pile carpet – and later awoken from dreams of walls covered in thick scrawls of black crayon, sweating and shaking at the thought. He’d get up every time, pad to the living room, switch on the lights. Check the wallpaper remained pristine after all. Audrey wanted to linger, admire and inspect, but he told her they could only stop a minute, freshen up, then hit the town.

Audrey put down the figurine she’d been examining – a little bronze Cupid – and realigned it on the chest of drawers.

‘First, though, you have to play me something.’ Aud perched on the edge of the sofa, her long legs crossed at the ankles, her face expectant.

‘What?’

‘I want to hear you play. I never knew anyone before who could play the piano. My dad, he had this old banjo or something, like a little guitar it was, but he wasn’t much good.

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