The Postcard by Zoë Folbigg

Author:Zoë Folbigg [Folbigg, Zoë]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: The Note
ISBN: 9781789542134
Publisher: Head of Zeus

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Maya stands at the table with all the leaflets on top of it and steps out of her bronze Havaianas, ready for her weigh-in. Or weigh-out, rather. While she waits, she ponders how she can let Moon down after The Haven kindly offered this trip to Maya and James for free, for a write-up. How can she write it with the tension Amy Appleyard wants (Well done, Amy, you got your bust-up) without letting Esprit readers know she royally messed up?

As Maya waits for Moon, she looks at a leaflet about crystals, and considers which small and polite fib she can tell, to explain why they’re leaving three days early.

Another member of staff, a man Maya hasn’t seen before, walks up the wooden ladder steps to the common room and comes in clutching the scales.

‘Mister Moon is in the main office. Big hoo-ha. Guest leave without paying.’

Maya gasps. ‘Really?’

‘Yeah, it happen every now and then. But we track ’em down and kill ’em.’

Maya gasps again before seeing the smile on the corner of the man’s mouth.

‘Well, I’m sorry to hear that. But if you can let Moon know everything was wonderful, thank you, and sorry that we’re leaving halfway through, we’ve just had a family matter come up.’ Maya hopes her excuse sounds less flimsy to someone who doesn’t speak English as their first language. ‘I’ll write up a glowing review.’

‘Here to please you, ma’am. Hope you return to The Haven again soon.’

‘We will,’ Maya lies, knowing she will never voluntarily not eat for a day ever again.

‘Always our raw restaurant,’ says the man, as if he can read her mind. ‘Not everyone come to fast.’

Maya blushes and takes her cue to step on the scales while James walks their luggage to the little wooden boat waiting at the shore. He already clocked a loss of 4kg this morning. As Maya rises barefoot, she steps up onto a cloud of relief. She’s relieved to be leaving; relieved to be putting Jon well and truly in her past; relieved that the weight of betrayal is now lifted from her shoulders.

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