Summer Flings and Dancing Dreams by Sue Watson

Author:Sue Watson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781910751176
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

14

DANCING AT THE DEEP END

Tony was excited about a new venue he had found for us to practise in and was driving along the M6 to a leisure centre near Walsall. I still hadn’t heard from Cameron since his no-show and the fact he hadn’t texted me at all since it was clear he had no plans to take anything further. I had resisted texting him and if I’m honest was still hoping that he’d text with an explanation. But the day before I’d found out the truth and I needed to share it with Tony, who I knew would understand and be totally on my side. There was no way to sugar coat it, so I jumped straight in. ‘Cameron’s married.’

He was overtaking a lorry and I wasn’t sure if he was concentrating or just taking this news in, but after a few seconds he exploded.

‘You are kidding me? Tell me it’s a joke?’

‘Well if it is I don’t think it’s a very funny one,’ I snapped.

‘How did you find out?’

‘Carole told me. She wasn’t sure – but she had her suspicions because she was at school with his sister. So she made a point of standing with her in the queue to be weighed at Slimming World and somehow got the conversation onto Cameron and his family. She should have worked for MI5, anyway within minutes his sister had sung like a canary about his wife and three kids. Carole even found out they are about to celebrate twenty-five fucking years of marriage next week.’

‘Bastard!’ with that Tony slammed his fist hard on the steering wheel.

‘It’s okay, Tony... I just feel stupid. I can’t believe I was taken in.’

‘He took advantage...’

‘No he didn’t. I wish he had. I just got carried away... it’s easy to start seeing more in an online friendship... a “goodnight, gorgeous” becomes a relationship.’ I didn’t add fuel to the fire and remind him that Cameron had lied and told me he was divorced.

‘Babe, that’s an engagement where I come from,’ he sighed. ‘But don’t beat yourself up, Lola, it was the first sniff you’ve had in decades...’

‘Years... not decades, I’m not that old... I don’t sniff at men like a dog either.’

‘Oh come on love it’s been a while. Decades... he was desperate and you were needy... and sniffing around him like a dog,’ He started laughing at his own imagery.

I reached out and slapped him. ‘I’m not needy or desperate... and I don’t need a man.’

‘No you don’t – you’ve been responsible for your own orgasms since 1992...’ he added.

‘Thank you for that.’

‘But you’re okay aren’t you, Lola?’ he said, more seriously now. Joking aside, he knew this had knocked my confidence and was worried I might retreat back into my safe little world.

‘I am fine. I enjoyed talking to Cameron, it was good sharing our memories. I’d always looked back on my teen years as being overshadowed by my mum’s sadness when Dad went. Cameron reminded me that I was young once and had dreams and.

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