He's Got to Go by Sheila O'Flanagan

Author:Sheila O'Flanagan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2002-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

As soon as Nessa and Jill left for the day, Bree rang Michael at the hospital. He was improving every day, he told her. He’d be out by the end of the week. He was looking forward to seeing her again. He missed her. She told him that she missed him too. She wished she was mobile enough to be able to visit him instead of having to sit around the flat all day. She was sick of the sight of the flat.

She spent the rest of the day watching TV and reading the magazines that Declan had brought over. By the time Cate arrived later that evening she was extremely bored. Both Nessa and Cate now had keys to the flat so that they could call in to her without ringing the doorbell and dragging her down the stairs. Cate rapped at the door to the flat and pushed it open.

“Hi.” Bree dropped Bikers Monthly onto the table.

“How’re you doing?” asked Cate.

“Fed up,” said Bree. “It’s not my thing, doing nothing all day.”

“I can imagine.” Cate took a six-pack of Miller out of the bag she’d brought with her. “Want a beer?”

“Love one,” said Bree.

Cate handed her a beer and reached for the bottle opener on the shelf beside her. She gave it to Bree then took a small bottle of sparkling Ballygowan from the bag.

“Why are you doing that?” asked Bree.

“What?”

“Drinking water?”

Cate shrugged. “I’m driving.”

“One beer wouldn’t harm you.”

“After what happened to you, I’m being careful.”

“It never bothered you before.”

“Shut up, Bree.”

“I could understand the water drinking if it was because of your pregnancy,” continued Bree. “That’d make sense. But if you’re going to have an abortion it doesn’t matter, does it.”

“I said shut up.”

“Have you told Finn?”

“Bree!” Cate’s voice was dangerous. “Leave it alone, will you? You’re worse than that bitch Nessa.”

“She said what she felt,” Bree told her. “Maybe she should’ve kept quiet. But you really shouldn’t hold it against her.”

“Listen,” said Cate. “She’s going to hold this against me forever. Every time she looks at me she’s going to think that I’m a murderer. I know she is. She just doesn’t understand.”

“You should tell Finn.” Bree drank some beer, enjoying the feeling of cool liquid on the back of her throat. It had been another hot, sultry day and the flat was airless despite the fact that she’d opened all the windows.

“I know I should tell Finn,” said Cate. “But that makes it all much more complicated. It’s easier if I do it myself. What he doesn’t know won’t upset him.”

“Would he be upset?”

“Bree, give it a rest, will you?” Cate stood up. “It’s bad enough having had to listen to Nessa without you starting at me too.”

“I’m not,” protested Bree. “I just want you to see all sides of it. I don’t want you to do something when you haven’t thought it all through.”

“You think I haven’t spent my whole fucking life thinking about it since I found out?” demanded Cate. “I think of nothing else, Bree.

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