You Think You Know Me by Ayaan Mohamud

Author:Ayaan Mohamud
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

I come back once I’m sure everything’s over. Thankfully, when I walk in again, there are only a few stragglers. Most people have already closed up shop and have started to clear up.

“Hanan!” Andrea exclaims when she sees me. She waves me over excitedly and it’s all I can do to try and hide what’s written on my face.

“Where were you?” she continues, when I come nearer the table. “You were there one second and then you were gone.”

“I’m still feeling a bit sick from this morning,” I lie. “Think I’ve caught a bug or something.”

As Andrea starts counting what’s in the cash box, I look away.

“Well, congrats,” she says. “Because you missed the most shocking development. Someone just swooped in and—”

That’s when I notice the table’s empty. Not just Andrea’s side, but my side too.

“Wait,” I interrupt her. “Where’s the food gone? My stuff was still here when I left.”

Andrea looks up at me to roll her eyes. She waves a £20 note in my face. “That’s what I’m trying to tell you! Someone came in and bought the whole lot. All the samosas and those little fried balls. Delicious, by the way. I snuck one in my mouth when you weren’t looking.”

“But who’d do that? There was enough there to feed like thirty elephants.”

She shrugs her shoulders and moves on to separating the coins.

“Who was it then? You can’t say that and not tell me who it was.”

Andrea doesn’t shrug her shoulders this time. She stays quiet.

“Andrea.”

She drops the coins loudly into the cash box.

“Ugh fine, stop pestering me. It was Jessica, okay? It was Jessica. Stinky, ice-queen Jessica.”

I’m too shocked to speak but, eventually, my thoughts come together and all I can think is: I hate that bloody family and their mind games.

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