Hello Friend We Missed You by Richard Owain Roberts

Author:Richard Owain Roberts
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-912681-93-8
Publisher: Parthian
Published: 2020-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

Probably your friends, I don’t know, Hill says. I think they took an instant dislike to me maybe. They seem suspicious or unwelcoming to outsiders. I mean, it’s fine, it really is.

Hill takes a long drink from his pint glass of Coke. He picks up a slice of pizza and takes a bite. Trudy is staring at him unblinkingly.

Wish I’d never met this person, Hill thinks.

I am alive and having a nice time in Pizza Hut, Hill thinks.

Glad I met this person, Hill thinks.

***

Staring straight ahead at the now empty road, Hill turns the volume down on the radio.

I grew up here, Hill says. I don’t know how I would describe that experience. Probably pretty okay for most of the time, it’s just when people start to romanticise things it gets, um. It’s better to be honest if you can. Also I think it’s okay to forget things, like negative experiences that serve no positive purpose in your life. I’d include friends in that.

Hill, Trudy says.

I don’t mean your friends, I’m not passing any comment on them. They haven’t impacted me at all, either positive or negative. I’m talking about my experience.

Stop being like this, Hill thinks.

Trudy looks tired, and for the first time Hill notices small age lines around her eyes. He looks at her lips, her eyelashes, her eyebrows, and all look exactly how Hill would picture them in his head when she’s not around.

Trudy nods her head, one hand on the wheel and the other trying to force a Wrigley’s Extra out of a crumpled packet.

Better driver than me, Hill thinks.

Better person overall, Hill thinks.

I was looking at the footage we got, Hill says, I might edit it on Roger’s computer. We could do some more filming if it looks okay. I don’t know, maybe…

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