Mates, Dates and Tempting Trouble by Hopkins Cathy

Author:Hopkins, Cathy [Hopkins, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781848122604
Publisher: Piccadilly Press

Quote From a Letter John Keats wrote to Fanny Brawne:

‘I love you too much to venture into Hampstead.

I feel it is not paying a visit but venturing into a fire.’

Chapter 12

I was dreading the next project meeting on Wednesday and, in the meantime, watched Nesta closely for clues that Luke might have said something to her. Clearly not by the way she behaved and talked, as though everything was normal. Lucy on the other hand seemed concerned about my relationship with Steve.

‘He really missed you when you dashed off on Sunday,’ she said at break on Monday.

‘Yeah, sorry, I wasn’t feeling too good,’ I blustered. ‘Got a bit of a bug.’

‘I thought you didn’t seem your usual self, didn’t I, Izzie? Remember I said to you.’

Izzie raised an eyebrow but didn’t say anything.

‘Are you OK now? Are you cooling off towards Steve?’ asked Lucy. ‘He says you haven’t been around much lately.’

I shook my head. ‘Been busy. There’s so much to do on the project and so little time.’

Unseen by Lucy, Izzie raised her other eyebrow. Was this a new type of meditation? Eyebrows now instead of nostrils or was she trying to say something? You never knew with Izzie.

Lucy nodded. ‘Yeah, I know what you mean. It has been full on. But you will tell Steve if you’re going off him, won’t you? I’d hate to see him hurt and I want to be prepared for any reactions.’

‘Yeah. Course. But my feelings for him haven’t changed. Honest,’ I said. It was true. They hadn’t changed. I still really liked Steve, always would, but I couldn’t deny that what I felt for Luke was on another level. Oh hell. There’s that expression again. Did Luke mean what I mean by another level? As in fancy-like-mad, never-felt-this-way-before-in-my-life type level? Oh shut up, shut up, shut up, I told myself as we went into maths.

By the time Wednesday came round, I was feeling marginally saner. Everything was OK with the girls, clearly nobody had said anything and I had it clear in my mind that if I could just get through the project and see Nesta through the break up with Luke then I wouldn’t have to see him again. It would all blow over. And then we’d move to Devon where I’d definitely never see him again.

I geared myself up to seeing Luke at the meeting and being really cool but, when I arrived in the prefab, Sian was the only one there, bent over some notes at one of the tables.

‘Hey,’ I said as I walked in. ‘Others not here yet?’

Sian shook her head. ‘Not coming,’ she said. ‘Luke wants to go over some things with Olivia. I guess we’re not wanted.’

I felt a mixture of relief and disappointment. ‘Oh, OK,’ I said and put my rucksack down next to hers on the table.

Sian looked agitated. ‘Do you think he fancies Olivia?’

‘Olivia? Er, I don’t think so. They’ve been mates a long time. She told me. He’s a friend of her brother.

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