The Predictions by Zander Bianca

Author:Zander,Bianca
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Published: 2015-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

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HarperCollins Publishers

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CHAPTER 11

London

1988

THE BAND HAD STARTED rehearsing for their first British tour. The album was coming out in March, and then in the summer of 1988, the same month Gavin thought I was marrying him, they would go on tour. In June, Gavin took me aside in the telex room, a level of intimacy he had never once attempted at work, and told me that much to everyone’s relief, above all his own, he had managed to postpone the wedding.

“Postpone?” I said, taken aback. “You still haven’t canceled it?”

He said, “I can’t. I’ll lose my deposit.”

“Your deposit on what?”

“On the venue. Where we’re going to hold the reception.”

I had never considered these details, as if the wedding had been organized by a magic spell. “Is it for a great deal, this deposit?”

“Yes,” said Gavin, “a considerable amount.”

This would be a sticking point—­perhaps even the main sticking point—­and I couldn’t see a way around it. “How long will they hold it for?”

“A ­couple of months,” he said.

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