Super Star by Cathy Hopkins

Author:Cathy Hopkins [Hopkins, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857076045
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK

Happiness is:

An unexpected opportunity coming out of the blue.

Sharing a tub of ice cream with a best mate.

Lying in the sun on a well-deserved morning off.

A boy I like saying he loves me.

Unhappiness is:

Not being able to be with the boy who loves me.

12

The Tour Begins

Monday morning and I was up and dressed early. I made myself a cup of tea, and a piece of toast and raspberry jam which I hardly tasted, then I went to the front of the reception area to collect the tickets and wait for Stephanie and the car. As always, the area smelt divine from the Jo Malone candles they burn there all day and I noticed the flowers of the day on the glass cabinet in the centre were an enormous display of white orchids.

Yoram was on the door for the morning shift. He’s ex-army and is lean and fit-looking. As always, he looked immaculate with short hair, a smart black suit and highly polished black shoes. He was never friendly, unlike Didier, the other security guy. I always felt that Yoram disapproved of my friendship with the Lewises, as if he felt it was inappropriate for me to mix with the residents. He gave me the briefest of nods and didn’t ask what I was doing there. I knew that Dad would have told him about me working for Stephanie already; Yoram made it his business to know everything that was going on at the apartment block.

As I waited, the French family from the third floor came down for their car and the teenage boy who had ignored me last week when I was dressed in my cleaner’s overalls, checked me out as he went past and gave me a flirty look. It felt good to be on the other side of things again, instead of the invisible girl in the rubber gloves with a mop.

At nine-fifteen, a sleek black Mercedes drew up outside. JJ had told me that they were loaning it to Stephanie as well as their apartment. I peeked into the front. A young man with blond hair under his chauffeur’s cap was behind the wheel. I didn’t recognise him from when I’d travelled with the Lewises and realised, they must have taken their drivers with them to the USA.

Five minutes later, Stephanie came down and Yoram opened the back door of the car for her. She was dressed in a pale green linen dress and her usual silver jewellery, but despite her cool outfit, she looked in a flap and was weighed down with bags of books and papers.

‘Best if you meet me upstairs next time, Jess,’ she said as she handed me one bag, then got into the car. ‘Just to check I’ve got everything. There’s always so much to carry and remember at the last minute.’

‘I’m so sorry. I should have thought of that,’ I said as I got in after her. I noticed Yoram’s expression. A slight raising of the eyebrow as if he was agreeing with her.

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