One Night With You by Laura Jane Williams

Author:Laura Jane Williams [Laura Jane Williams]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2022-03-23T17:00:00+00:00

25

Ruby

I get to learn a lot about him in these two hours. There’s nowhere to be, and as the scenery changes it’s rife for idle chit-chat.

‘Do you still do the live action role-play?’ I say, trying to steer us onto less flirtatious ground. I remember his LARPing from the photo we’d seen of him before we met. ‘You used to do it loads in Liverpool, didn’t you?’

He considers the question. ‘You know …’ he said. ‘This is the longest I’ve gone without LARPing since I was a teenager. I love it, but I suppose I’ve just been doing other things.’

‘Playing tourist?’

‘Is that a guess, or a cyber-stalk again?’

‘No comment.’

‘I’ve looked at your page sometimes too. And I follow the Find JP’s Girl account.’

My heart soared when he first followed the account. I’m touched that he’d take an interest.

‘I’d imagine film-making taps into the same feeling I get from LARPing, now that I think about it.’

‘How so?’

‘You know, getting to try on another character for size, using a story to learn about yourself …’

‘I’d never even heard of it before. It does seem pretty cool. There’s something about finding an interest or a passion and really going for it, isn’t there? The difference between, I don’t know, going to a football match once in a while and plastering your bedroom in team colours, researching the formations, following the transfers or whatever.’

‘Listen to you, it’s like tuning in to Match of the Day!’

‘Shut up,’ I say. ‘We can’t all be Alan Shearer.’

‘To be fair,’ he replies, ‘I played a bit of footie before I moved, but it wasn’t exactly a passion. It was just what everyone else did and it kept me busy. I’d prefer to lift weights or listen to a podcast on a treadmill to keep fit.’

‘Which you obviously do.’ I grin.

‘I try to keep in shape, yes,’ he says, flexing an arm like Johnny Bravo.

It killed me, having to walk away from him last night. He keeps looking at me now, and he thinks he’s being stealthy and that I haven’t noticed, but I have. I mean, I look awful. I feel like I’ve not slept in a decade and I’m really mad at myself for not taking off my make-up last night, and for not washing my face this morning. Candice was gone when I woke up, and so I hit snooze more times than I should have, leaping out of bed at the last moment. I didn’t expect to run into anyone, but of course the laws of the universe dictate that whenever you look like you’ve been dug up from a grave you have to bump into everyone you know. I don’t normally have trouble getting up, but I felt heavy and sluggish today. I guess I’m a bit sad, really. Candice and I have fallen out before – we’ve had silly disagreements and big screaming fights, but they didn’t feel like this. The energy to this one is different. It’s more … sinister.

When I was

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