Wishful Thinking (a journey that will change lives forever) by Hill Melissa

Author:Hill, Melissa [Hill, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

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Over the next few weeks, she and Sam began to see more and more of one another. They seemed to get on amazingly well and enjoyed doing the same things: cheap and cheerful Italian restaurants, Thai takeaways and nights out at the cinema. The only snag was that Sam had a very sweet tooth and his constant chocolate munching was playing havoc with Louise’s careful diet. Crème eggs especially were his thing, and one night at the cinema, and to Louise’s immense amusement, he’d scoffed five gooey eggs in quick succession! Gradually she began to fall for him. No, let’s be honest, she thought grinning, she’d fallen for him right from the very beginning. In the meantime, she’d simply kept falling harder.

“You should bring him over for a visit sometime,” Heather suggested one day over the phone. She tried to sound off-hand about it, but Louise knew her sister would be dying to suss Sam out, and see what he was like, or more importantly, to see if he was good enough for her baby sister.

“Maybe soon,” Louise replied, “but you might need a bit of coaching beforehand!” She went on to laughingly explain how she’d led Sam to believe she was some kind of high-maintenance girl-about-town.

But Heather’s disapproval was almost palpable. “Why does he think that? And more importantly why are you letting him think that?” she asked, in her most annoying, big-sister tone.

Louise explained how she and Sam had first met, and how while trying to appear cool and disinterested, she’d kept up the pretence of being someone worth getting to know.

“But Louise, you are someone worth getting to know,” Heather replied, exasperated. “You don’t need to pretend to be anything other than yourself!”

“But I really like him, Heather. He’s different to most guys I’ve gone out with. He’s mature, sensitive, funny and I feel as though I can talk to him about anything.”

“Well, if that’s the case, what does it matter if he finds out the truth? That you’re not some rich kid from a well-off background, that you’re just an ordinary, decent, hard-working person from a normal, decent, hardworking background. If he’s as nice as you say he is, then I’m sure he won’t care where you come from.”

At this, Louise felt ashamed. Her sister was right. She had no reason to be embarrassed about her upbringing. Her parents, and indeed Heather, had always done their best for her, and here she was more or less trying to deny them. It wasn’t right.

But, at the time, she hadn’t seen it like that. She just thought it would be fun pretending to be the kind of girl she’d always wanted to be, a fun, confident, desirable woman of the world. And in truth, she’d enjoyed her little fabrications to the point where she almost delighted in coming up with something new and equally outrageous. She wanted to live that kind of lifestyle – the shopping, the holidays, the girly friendships.

It hadn’t really been about her background at

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