My Best Friend's Girl by Dorothy Koomson

Author:Dorothy Koomson [Koomson, Dorothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, C429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9780440337522
Publisher: Hachette Digital
Published: 2006-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Have you been crying?” Luke asked over an hour later. He’d read Tiga four stories and listened to her chatter on for a good ten minutes until her wind-up mechanism had finally unwound itself and she’d fallen asleep. He now removed the book I hadn’t tidied away from the sofa, slid it onto the floor before he sat down. I was on the other end of the sofa, I’d been half watching the television, half wondering if I should start washing up, and completely listening to Luke and Tiga talking in her room.

I turned to Luke as he sat down on the other end. He was exhausted: his eyes were pinkshot, his blue shirt was rumpled and the creases on his thirty-five-year-old face seemed more pronounced than usual. I didn’t reply to his question because I was stunned he’d asked it.

“Have you?” he repeated.

I’d checked my face in the mirror before he’d arrived and my eyes weren’t red or puffy. How could he know?

“Why do you ask?”

“You’ve got that look in your eyes. You used to have it a lot when we first met. I used to think it was disdain but now I know it was because you were crying a lot in those days—now I know it’s because Adele had just passed away. And that look is back.”

I couldn’t tell him why I’d been crying, no one could know about it. Especially not him, he who could make Tegan so happy. I didn’t want him to know I didn’t have his skill with her.

“So, who was this woman you were shagging in London?” I asked.

Luke paused as a host of emotions—shame, delight, embarrassment, guilt—flitted across his features. “I take it the social worker’s visit didn’t go well,” he plowed on, determined to get me to open up.

Not as determined as I was to keep mum, however. “I’m guessing she was a new conquest judging by how much she heaped on you?”

Luke’s eyes remained fixed on me for a moment as he calculated something. “I didn’t mean for it to happen,” he said, admitting defeat, it seemed. “I, well, I kind of…you know, some things get mixed up in your head? I liked her but she’s not my usual type of, well, you know, and I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what my type is and if I’ve been a bit rigid in only going for one sort of woman. And I guess I got my emotions jumbled up with my logic and one thing led to another, really. Nothing to write home about but—”

“I shouted at Tegan,” I blurted out. I couldn’t bear to hear anymore.

“Is that why you were crying?”

I nodded.

“It’s OK, you know, we all lose our tempers every now and again.”

“You don’t understand, I lost it. I said I’d had enough of her, I told her she was doing my head in. I…I almost told her that she’d ruined my life.”

“But you didn’t, that’s what’s important.”

“So it’s not important that I think that?”

That stumped him.

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