All In Her Head by Paula Johnston

Author:Paula Johnston [Johnston, Paula]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-one

Cassie

Finlay heads for the bar, pulling his wallet from his back pocket and I spot the head of every female swivelling so hard on their necks that their skull might just roll right off and smash on the floor.

And I don’t blame them, let’s be honest, who could? But all of them are much prettier than me, far more glamorous, and worthy of his attention. Any of them would probably be a better match for him than me.

I bet he goes for Scorpio women. Fiercely independent, brave, and magnetic. Or maybe even Leos, with their lioness confidence and alluring seductiveness that probably make men fall at their feet. I know one thing: it’s not likely that he’d go for a Cancer like me.

Apparently, my zodiac sign is ruled by the moon – whatever that means – which means I’m too sensitive and over emotional. Totally agree, too, because not many of my traits are positive. In fact, maybe I should ask what he is when he comes back. Then I could wait until he needs to nip to the toilet and use Google to look up his full birth chart and check the exact details of our compatibility. If there is any.

Then again, they do say opposites attract, right?

Desperate to check myself for any indiscretions, I pick up my phone and study my face on the dark, reflective screen. A couple of previously curled strands have somehow managed to escape the low bun I attempted to secure the chaos tightly in, with not one, but three bobbles. But all in all, I don’t look too bad. The multiple layers of concealer I plastered over puffy purple shadows have done a fairly decent job, and the blush stick that I’d dotted across my cheekbones is somehow managing to pull off the ruse of a healthy glow, which will be helpful when I need to disguise any embarrassment that’s likely coming my way.

Strangely, despite not having much to worry about at the moment, I begin to feel a little choked up. Because acceptable as I may look, at the end of the day, it’s still all a lie, isn’t it? I might look half decent on the outside, but if he could pry open my skin with his bare hands, I know he’d run a mile. It’s a dark world of chaos in there that nobody can seem to stomach.

Even my own mum and dad couldn’t wait for me to move out and get my own place when I turned eighteen. Sick of the sight of me moping around and had given up all hope that they could shake me from a trance that none of us understood. God, I hated them for so long afterwards, resenting their perfectly wonderful lives. They were much happier and carefree without me weighing them down, and if I had to see one more Facebook post of another four-week cruise, it might have tipped me over the edge.

While I struggled to top-up the leccy and fill

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