The Obstruction of Emma Goldsworthy by Sean Kennedy

Author:Sean Kennedy [Kennedy, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult
ISBN: 978-1-64080-386-2
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

THEY HAD gotten through a couple of drinks and dinner without mention of the elephant in the room, but later, as Emma and Jess roamed the city streets, not wanting to part just yet, it was eventually attacked.

“So…,” Jess said, dragging out the word for as long as she could. “Trish?”

“No! Just when this was going so well!”

“You knew we had to talk about it sooner or later.”

“I was just hoping that we wouldn’t. Not tonight. Tonight’s been magical.”

“Magical? Have I been casting spells? Or was it you casting spells?” Jess definitely knew when to turn on the charm, although Emma didn’t like her using it to deflect from a serious conversation about Trish. Did it mean the subject was something much deeper to Jess or that she had something to hide? Emma really really hoped not.

But then, it was Emma who had tried to stave off the conversation tonight. And she wasn’t hiding anything nefarious about her relationship with Trish. She gave a feeble response. “I don’t have a wand license yet.”

“Ah, then it was me!”

“Cute.”

She stopped in her tracks, and Emma was forced to do so as well. “Uh-oh, the atmosphere’s changed. Is there a troll in the dungeon?”

“If her name’s Trish, yeah.”

This was a test. Jess’s reaction to calling Trish a troll would let Emma know whether there were still feelings there. But she laughed.

“Okay, I wouldn’t go so far as calling her a troll. We know she’s not ugly. But she is kind of a dick.”

“A dick in the dungeon?” Emma suggested.

“That sounds even worse.”

“So she’s a bit of a troll and a bit of a dick, so let’s just say she’s a bit of a trick,” Emma rapped.

Jess was almost bent over with laughter. “Nice one, Nicki Minaj.”

“Oh, thank the goddess you compared me to Minaj. If it was Iggy Azalea, I would have broken up with you.”

Oh, stupid Emma! Quick, invent a time machine and come back to this moment and kill yourself before you managed to say this!

Unfortunately no future self came running out of the shadows with a screwdriver and funny coat to save her. But Jess was grinning.

“Are we going out, are we?”

Emma decided she might as well go full throttle and hopefully play up the angle that she was either playfully joking around or truly delusional. “I thought we were, since you’re already madly in love with me.”

“Am I?” Jess asked. She was as cool as the berg that brought the Titanic down, and Emma was the guy in the film who hilariously hit the propeller and spun off it as the ship was sinking. “I guess you are pretty cute and funny. We’ll see how it goes.”

Now Emma was being kissed once more. The world around them became monochrome, but Emma and Jess were vivid Technicolor, full Dorothy in the Land of Oz, and wow, Emma’s internal gay references were becoming really overt—

“Thanks, girls! I’ll save that for my wank bank!”

They jolted apart, the world in colour once more, although now it was dark and mottled.

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