Mates, Dates and Chocolate Cheats by Cathy Hopkins

Author:Cathy Hopkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781848121423
Publisher: Piccadilly Press Ltd
Published: 2007-08-18T04:00:00+00:00

Izzie’s exercise regime: Up down, up down. And now the other eyelid.

Chapter 9

Temptation Alley

As it had stopped raining when we got out of the studio, we decided to go up to Camden Lock and have a cruise around the market. Nesta was over the moon at having been picked to be on the panel and she wondered why I didn’t feel the same high.

‘Because Gabriel thinks I’m like his sister,’ I groaned as we headed up the high street and I filled them in on my conversation with him.

‘His sister might be a real hottie,’ said Nesta. ‘He might have paid you the most wonderful compliment in the world. What is going on with you lately, Izzie? You’re so down on yourself.’

‘Yeah,’ said Lucy. ‘And you’re usually Miss Positive.’

I shrugged. ‘Dunno. Just . . . oh, it’s just I seem to be losing all my confidence. It’s gone down the plughole.’

‘Why don’t you do some of your affirmations?’ asked Lucy. ‘All that full of joy stuff you always used to chant. Remember I am full of joy, I am full of joy, I am full of joy.’

‘Right. I am full of joy,’ I said miserably.

Usually I’m a great believer that state of mind is often due to choice. Tell yourself that you’re miserable and your mind goes OK, yeah, I am. Choose to be happy and you can be – and you can boost the feeling by making positive affirmations. But fat? I hadn’t chosen that and yet it was the reason for my mood and my loss of confidence. Maybe Lucy was right. I should start doing my affirmations.

‘And do one of your visualisations,’ said Nesta. ‘Visualise yourself the exact size you want to be, having a great time with Gabriel. Maybe it will come true.’

I knew that Nesta thought that visualisations (unless they were of racks of clothes at the mall) were baloney, and she was just trying to be supportive.

‘Thanks, Nesta. I will.’ I tried to imagine myself as she said but couldn’t get the image right. I kept seeing myself as the Blob girl surrounded by skinny minnies.

Just as we were going over the bridge on the approach to the Lock, Lucy swerved to the left.

‘Let’s cross over,’ she said and tried to hustle us across the road which wasn’t a good idea as there was a great double decker bus coming straight at us.

‘Woah, what’s the hurry?’ I asked as I pulled her back on to the pavement.

Lucy looked over my shoulder, then tried to drag me over the road again. She’d clearly seen someone she wanted to avoid so I looked around to see who it might be. About ten metres down the pavement, Jay was coming towards us, hand in hand, with a pretty blonde girl. She was pointing at something in a shop and he was pulling her on. And then he saw us, met my eyes and froze. He looked away and hauled the girl into the nearest shop.

‘Ohmigod!’ said Lucy.

‘She must be the steady girlfriend,’ I said.

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