Spring at The Cosy Cottage Cafe_A heart-warming story of friendship and new beginnings by Rachel Griffiths

Author:Rachel Griffiths [Griffiths, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-08T22:00:00+00:00

12

Coffee in hand, Honey sat opposite Elliott again, waiting for him to begin. The kitchen was so quiet that she could hear the clock ticking and the birds singing outside. But she was waiting for Elliott to speak first, because he was the one with the news.

“Honey…” He licked his lips then sighed. “We were so close for so long weren’t we?”

She nodded. “Best friends.”

“Looking back, it all seems such a long time ago but I remember it as if it were yesterday.”

Honey and Elliott had grown up as next-door neighbours in Basingstoke. They’d been friends through primary school, fallen out in the first year of high school, then become good friends again at sixteen when they’d both gone to college to study art. Elliott had been her slightly geeky, lanky friend. She hadn’t known she had any romantic feelings for him until they’d gone to a house party, the summer after their first year at college, and ended up kissing. The transition from being friends to being a couple had been almost seamless, and as they’d already known each other so well, it had been a relationship free of the usual awkwardness of first dates or finding out something that put them off each other. Honey had also recently lost her father – just after her sixteenth birthday – and Elliott had helped her to come to terms with her grief. She’d been shocked, lost and broken and Elliott had been her much-needed rock, while her mother had turned to yoga to deal with her own loss.

Then, when Honey and Elliott had come towards the end of their time at college and been considering university courses, everything as they’d known it had changed again.

“The good and the bad?”

He nodded.

“I’m sorry I haven’t been in touch before, Honey, but I just felt that you were better off without me.”

“I thought the same about you. I wanted to speak to you so many times but it didn’t seem right and I thought that seeing as how you were off enjoying university, you wouldn’t want me spoiling your fun.”

“My fun? Honey, I thought about you every day and wondered how you were coping. I wished you would go to university yourself and do something with your talent.”

“I have done things.” She lifted her chin.

“I hope so.”

“I paint and I have a kiln in my workshop at the bottom of the garden. I sell some of my work on.” She didn’t elaborate, not wanting to seem as if she had something to prove to him.

“I’m glad to hear it.”

“What about you?”

“I design T-shirts for a few different firms.”

“Like that one?” She gestured at what he was wearing.

“Yeah and some with slogans or sketches. Quite dystopian stuff some of it.”

“But that was your style, wasn’t it?”

“I also do some prints. I have a website.”

“I’ll have to check it out.”

“I’d like that.”

They drank their coffee and Honey ran her fingers over the side of her olive-green mug. It was one she’d made when she’d first come to Heatherlea; simple yet solid and that was what she’d craved from life at that time.

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