The Girl Who Saw Everything by Alma De Groen

Author:Alma De Groen [Groen, Alma De]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780868193458
Publisher: Currency Press
Published: 2011-12-05T05:00:00+00:00

GAZ: How the hell did this happen to me?

CAROL: I can give you something for it. It’s not a problem. Well, it is a problem, but you learn to live with it. I read somewhere that we’re shedding bits of ourselves all the time. When you sleep with someone your lungs are ingesting clouds of each other all night. [Pause. She watches him.] You told her, didn’t you? [Pause.] You told Liz about us. [Pause.] She took it pretty badly, from the look of you.

GAZ: [scratching] No. Not so badly. Not as badly as she should have done.

CAROL: That’s a relief.

GAZ: Yes… It was.

CAROL: So everything’s okay, then?

GAZ: Okay?

CAROL: You said she took it pretty well.

GAZ: Yes. She took it very well.

CAROL: I’m proud of you. You’ve been so brave, Gareth. It’s not an easy thing to do. I’ve been through it myself a few times so I know what I’m talking about—though I’m usually not the dumper, I’m usually the dumpee. The last time it happened I swore I’d never get involved with a married man ever again. Lucky for me I’m weak-willed. There’s no way I could have resisted when you came along. It makes up for all the really rotten things that happened before I met you.

GAZ: [putting his glass down] Carol—

CAROL: Do you want to go out and eat?

GAZ: Eat?

CAROL: It would be nice to sort of celebrate, don’t you think? If that’s not being too insensitive.

GAZ: I’m pretty tired.

CAROL: Okay, we’ll stay in then. I prefer that anyway. Seeing you sitting on my sofa as if you belong there is the most amazing thing. When people say good can come out of even the most hideous disaster, I’ll believe them in future. I think this is our healing time, don’t you? It certainly is for me. If I had to live for the rest of my life believing that poor girl’s death was completely meaningless, I don’t know how I’d cope. It’s almost as if by bringing us together she’s absolved us. Me anyway. I’m the one who killed her.

GAZ: Carol—

CAROL: I know what you’re going to say, and it’s wonderful of you, but you can’t change facts: ‘Death by misadventure’—my name alongside hers in the police records, not yours.

GAZ: Oh, God.

CAROL: One day we’ll look back on this time and realise we were blessed. Somebody up there really cares about us.

GAZ takes a generous swallow of wine.

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