Love, in Theory by Elodie Cheesman

Author:Elodie Cheesman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Published: 2021-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

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The next weekend, I’ve arranged to meet James at a gallery in Surry Hills. One of his friends has put on an exhibition; a kind of ‘Museum of Broken Relationships’ installation called, cryptically, ‘It’s Not You’.

I miss my bus and arrive a few minutes late, to see James already waiting outside the gallery on Crown Street. Leaning casually against the shopfront in a white T-shirt and dark jeans, he looks like James Dean, but brighter-eyed, sunnier. James Franco playing James Dean, perhaps. He’s chatting to a slender girl with a perky ponytail and an apron who’s clearing coffee cups from the sidewalk tables next door. As I start to cross the street, I see her balance her tray on one hip, take out her phone and, by the looks of it, enter his details.

James smiles as I approach and languidly pushes himself upright. He greets me with a hug, and pulls two tickets from his pocket.

‘Were you chatting up that waitress?’ I ask, amused.

‘Chatting to,’ he says. ‘Shall we go in?’

‘Sure. What do I owe you for the ticket?’

‘Don’t worry about it.’ He waves me away. ‘I got them free. I think Marcus was just glad to get some people through the exhibition. I don’t think the turnout’s been that great.’

‘Shouldn’t we pay, then?’ I say. ‘I feel bad.’

‘Don’t stress,’ he says. ‘I’ll shout him a beer next time I see him.’

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