Locked Out of Heaven by Shirley Benton

Author:Shirley Benton [Benton, Shirley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: kindle Unlimited, womens fiction, new
ISBN: 9781781993453
Publisher: Poolbeg Press
Published: 2020-04-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 31

14 September 1994

I’ve been away for quite a while, but I think you’ll forgive me when I tell you why, Diary. I’ve been putting time into my relationship with Terry. Stop laughing. I’m doing the right thing. We’ve been going on loads of weekends away around the country and stuff and we’re getting on great. Meanwhile, I’ve been trying to distance myself from Damo. I think it’s for the best, but I really miss his friendship. Cliff keeps asking me why I’m not going over to Princes’ Palace any more and I keep fobbing him off with excuses. What else can I do?

I also have some good news. I got seven honours in the Leaving Cert, five of them As! Susie and Willie nearly burst with pride, although the celebrations were tinged with the unspoken knowledge that Ricky was the one who should have blazed the trail for academic achievement.

It was all very unreal. People from my school just weren’t expected to get results like mine. The teachers didn’t know whether to hug me or report me as someone who must have cheated. Although I always had my homework done, I’d always been quiet in class and was too shy to answer questions, and since Ricky’s death I’d become so introverted that I don’t think the teachers really had any idea just how committed I was to getting a good Leaving.

My mock results had been good, but my actual results had blown those out of the water. So, thanks to the college grant, I started at Trinity College Dublin last week! I’m hoping Addiction Studies will help me to make sense of what happened to Ricky and hopefully, I’ll be able to help other people with addictions.

And now on to Sammy. This is where things are starting to get tricky, Diary.

“Sammy just rang looking for you,” Susie said a few days ago when I got in from college. “She said she had big news and it was urgent and life-threatening and couldn’t wait another second. She sounded absolutely fine, though. She left a number for you to call her back.”

The number was a Dublin one. Presumably, she got the course she was looking for at Trinity College Dublin. I hesitated before ringing her back. I’d be swimming in dangerous waters by becoming friendly with the sister of the guy I was trying to forget, but I couldn’t bring myself to snub someone I liked so much, either.

It was all very well having lunch and a few jars with a crowd of people I’d just met in Trinity College Dublin, but I had a feeling that with Sammy, our friendship could potentially be the real deal. She was cheeky and way more outgoing than yours truly, but she was decent and solid, too. The type of friend I’ve never had but always wanted. Plus, she had damn good taste in borrowable clothes . . .

For a split second, I wondered if she’d received more than a snog from Tommy the

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