Healthy Addictions by Landon Dixon

Author:Landon Dixon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Xcite Books
Published: 2011-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

Friday Nights

by Eva Hore

My flatmate, Sheila, is one of those quiet types. You know, spends most of her time in her room, hardly goes out and never has friends over or entertains. I don’t think in the two years that we’ve shared our flat have I seen her with a guy.

She’s a librarian. Loves her job and always has her nose in a book. That’s how we met. I was advertising for a flatmate and asked if I could put an ad up on the bulletin board. She came over, loved the place and moved in the very next week.

We generally keep to ourselves but lately she’s changed. I’d spied her coming out of the bathroom one Saturday after she’d come home. She’d been wearing mascara, her eyes were smudged and black, her lips were raw and swollen, her hair all mussed up.

She looked like she’d been out having a good time and, for Sheila, that was so out of character.

When I tried to ask her about it she lowered her head and quickly made her way back to her room. It was no big deal. She was a grown woman and able to do whatever she pleased. Why the secrecy, I wondered, and being inquisitive by nature I began to snoop around her room when she wasn’t home.

Didn’t find much. Not even sexy lingerie, which made me wonder even more. If she wasn’t getting dressed up to please someone then what was she getting up to?

You can therefore imagine my curiosity when she began going out every Friday night and didn’t come back home until early Saturday afternoon. She’d sleep most of the day away, get up for a quick meal on Saturday night then lock herself away in her room for the rest of the weekend.

My boyfriend John said I was too nosy. He said I should leave her alone, not worry about her and what she was doing, but I couldn’t let it go, I had to know what she was up to so one night I followed her.

I’d talked it over with John, told him what I was going to do but he wouldn’t come with me. This particular Friday night I watched her leave and then after about 30 seconds I ran down the fire escape and hid around the side of the building. I watched her jump into a cab and, fortunately for me, one was idling on the other side of the road. A quick whistle from me and, with the squeal of tyres, the cab did a U-turn. I jumped in, and like in the movies, I said, ‘Follow that cab.’

Now that I was in hot pursuit I wondered about how silly I’d look if she pulled up at a church choir or somewhere equally as innocent. I hadn’t even thought about what I’d do once she arrived at her destination.

We were driving to the outskirts of the city, near the wharfs where all the large warehouses were situated. What was so

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