Milking Time by Rachael Treasure

Author:Rachael Treasure [Treasure, Rachael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2024-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Stepping out of the Small Miracles and Mercies Charity Shop, I pull my collar up against the rain. Under my new secondhand poodle umbrella Gene Kelly’s ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ starts roaming around in my head like a movie soundtrack. I can see Nick through the rain-smear on the windscreen. I think of the crossroads Mrs O’Bee mentioned. So I cross the street.

From the shelter of my umbrella, I tap on the car window, my funny gumboots now looking bright and pretty with promise in the afternoon gloom.

Nick, surprised, screens the window down a little, grimacing at the rain entering his nice warm car. In the low light of the afternoon, I notice just how darkly Irish his eyes are, and how the peppering of stubble that prickles over his jaw has grey in it. His hair is greying too, at the temples, and he’s as handsome an Irishman as I’ve ever met – not that I’ve met many so far. It’s only then I realise he’s been crying.

‘Okay?’ I ask, gesturing at the car, as if it won’t start.

Embarrassed he looks away. ‘Fine. All fine. Thanks.’

There’s an awkward pause as the rain thrums.

‘Well then … it was nice to meet you, Nick,’ I say. ‘Mind yourself.’

‘You too, Connie.’

As he winds his window up, I can barely believe he remembered my name. With an unfamiliar energy I can’t explain, I dance my way over the street, my bright red gumboots splashing through puddles. I know he’s watching, and he might think I’m mad, but I don’t care. It’s been confirmed by Mrs O’Bee Wan Kenobi, the local Irish Jedi mistress and keeper of the stone Sheela Na Gig, I am far from mad! I am, in this part of the world, perfectly damn well sane! I am a seer again.

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