The Snag List by Sophie White

Author:Sophie White [White, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC044000; FIC071000, FA
ISBN: 9781529352719
Published: 2022-04-21T00:00:00+00:00

She turned to show him and he rocked with laughter. ‘Well, that has put me in my place.’ He turned his to her:

I love your humour and your intelligence.

I love the freckles on your eyelids.

I love the way you smell.

‘Mine’s like a love letter and yours is a shopping list.’ He slid along the bench to her and put an arm around her. ‘We are two good-smelling bastards.’

She settled back against him and watched the seagulls circling and swooping, crying and fighting over the occasional scrap of food.

Adam nudged her. ‘Look,’ he jerked his head over to the row of shops behind them, ‘a tattoo place. No ragrets?’

She laughed. They’d actually tried to get matching tattoos once in Melbourne. ‘Remember they said to come back when we weren’t so shitfaced?’ She giggled.

‘Do you remember what we were going to get?’ Adam frowned, trying to think.

‘It could have been anything. It was, like, 2011 so it deffo would’ve been horrific.’

‘Well,’ he waved the notebook, ‘will Adam and Lindy get their first tattoos?’

Lindy didn’t immediately have an answer to this one. She didn’t strictly not want a tattoo, but a permanent thing like a tattoo done during a date she’d proposed, in part, to find out if her marriage had any shot at permanence? It was either … poetically fitting or completely tragic.

She wrote: OK.

He’d written: Whatever Lindy says!

She smiled and stood. She reached for his hand. ‘OK, ice cream before or after tattoos?’

They got home at ten that night to find Fionnuala on her phone on the couch in the kitchen with Max lying against her, dozing.

‘It is so nice when he sleeps on you, isn’t it?’ Lindy swooped down to kiss her son’s ear.

‘I’ll bring him up.’ Adam slipped his arms under Max, lifted him gently and carried him out.

‘Sooo! How was it?’

‘It was very teenage, actually. We got McDonald’s, had fairly dodgy public sex and got tattoos.’

‘Shut up! Please say matching.’

‘Not matching. Mine’s here.’ Lindy pulled the neck of her top down to reveal her shoulder where a very fine red line joined a group of her freckles to make a drawing of a constellation.

‘It’s so cute. Is it Adam’s star sign or something?’ Finn’s face was pained at the mere idea.

‘Nah, it’s Aries for me and Max!’

‘Love it. New-age tattoo for your new-age life-coaching career is perfect.’

‘Maybe it’s a new-age tattoo for a new age of me,’ Lindy countered.

‘Does that mean you’ve made a decision?’ Finn kept her voice low in case Adam returned.

Lindy curled up in the other corner of the couch. ‘I don’t know. Today was actually amazing. And I do keep thinking how I have no evidence that that time wasn’t just a one-off. A horrible one, obviously. I just don’t know. Like, taking it on today’s terms – it was so good. We felt like us again. And that gives me so much hope. But then another part of me is like … it wasn’t us in our real lives, you know? And can we bring whatever we had today back here to this?’ She nodded, indicating the rest of the house.

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