Foursome by Jane Fallon

Author:Jane Fallon [Fallon, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 0100-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

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In one fell swoop Dan’s and my social life – such as it was – is over. Gone. Kaput. We still have Isabel, of course, but she doesn’t want to leave the girls more often than she has to after all the upheaval there’s been in their lives lately, and on the nights when she does she understandably wants to see Luke. There are other more casual friendships, couples we know through the kids or from the local pub, people Dan works with, but they’re the kind of friends you exchange Christmas cards with and chat to for ten minutes at parties; none of them are people we’ve ever felt the desire to spend whole evenings with.

In desperation to get Dan out of the house and to take his mind off things I write a list of all our possible new best friends and try to feel enthusiastic about arranging an evening out with any of them.

‘Anna and Kelvin?’

‘Mmm,’ he says, non-committally. ‘They’re OK.’

‘How about Sharon and Patrick? We had a good time with them at that school barbecue.’

‘He’s a bit of a know-all.’

He’s right. ‘You’re right,’ I say, crossing them off the list. ‘Not them.’ I scroll further down the list of names. ‘Oh, what about Rose and Simon? They’re fun.’

Dan sighs. ‘Do we have to? They’re nice enough but I just don’t feel like trying to force a connection with someone. Friendships happen naturally; they’re organic.’

‘I know that. But you have to interact with people in order to allow a friendship to develop organically. All I’m saying is why don’t we see if Rose and Simon want to have dinner? We might have a good time. If we don’t fall madly in love with them, then it’s no big deal. It’s just a night out, Dan, that’s all.’

‘Maybe in a couple of weeks,’ he says. ‘I don’t feel like it at the moment.’

‘Things aren’t just going to go back to the way they were, you know.’ I brush the hair away from his eyes the way I’m always doing to William. ‘Trust me, if there was a way for that to happen I would have found it by now.’

He shrugs. ‘What’s for dinner?’ he says, and that’s the end of it.

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