Love Happens Here by Clare Lydon

Author:Clare Lydon [Lydon, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912019779
Publisher: Custard Books

An hour later and we were still twirling with Matt and Natalie. Jason and Andy had retired injured – sore foot so Jason said, although I had a sneaking suspicion it was more to do with the free bar.

I looked at my watch as Aretha demanded a little more respect and considered what a perfect evening it had turned out to be after such an inauspicious start. After some sweet-talking Lucy seemed to have gotten over the whole Karen debacle and I was hugely relieved. I looked across at her now and grinned at her screaming out every word of the song along with the rest of the crowd. As I looked over her shoulder I spotted Ange at a table at the back of the room, sipping white wine in a red dress and chatting to a woman with short cropped hair.

Ange.

Super.

Time stopped and the music went muffled in my ears as panic surged through my body with torrential force. I was going to kill Julia.

Lucy caught my gaze and swivelled to look. I tried to grab her arm to dance with her, but too late – she’d already turned, already seen, and was now already turning back to face me, her face hardening by the milli-second.

“What’s she doing here? I thought you said Julia had told her not to come?”

Matt and Natalie danced on, oblivious to what was happening as I took Lucy’s hand and escorted her off the dance floor in the opposite direction to where Ange was sitting. We stood on the edge, literally and metaphorically, one foot on hard wood, the other on plush carpet.

“She told me she had but it looks like it slipped her mind.”

Lucy stopped and assessed the situation. She could see the anguish on my face and I hoped she believed this was definitely not in my plans for a fun night out. On the contrary, Ange had been the furthest thing from my mind. However, I had to take charge of the situation now.

“I can’t very well go and tell Julia off on her wedding day, so it looks like we have no choice other than to be grown-ups and ignore it.”

The look on Lucy’s face told me she didn’t like this plan and that right now, she didn’t much like me. I swear, if she’d had her shoes on, she’d have shown me a clean pair of heels and been out the door. I gave up a silent note of thanks for lady shoes.

“That’s your plan? What if she comes over?”

I looked pained and tried not to shrug even though I had no control over Ange’s movements.

“If she comes over we’ll deal with it. She’s nothing to me Lucy and you… Well, you’re the opposite of that.”

She wasn’t going to be coerced into smiling that easily.

“Let’s not let it ruin our night. I say we get a drink, have a chat with the boys and then dance some more. Look at it like we’ve just run into her in a lesbian bar by chance, which could easily happen.

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