Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian Keyes

Author:Marian Keyes [Keyes, Marian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Romance, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780060090371
Publisher: Perennial
Published: 1995-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

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“I’m worried about Mammy,” he said. “She’s gotten a bit funny, strange.”

“In what way?” I sighed, trying to be interested.

“Forgetting things.”

“Maybe she has Alzheimer’s.”

“Oh, you have to make a joke about everything, don’t you, Lucy?”

“I wasn’t joking, Peter. Maybe she does have Alzheimer’s. What kind of things has she started forgetting?”

“Well, you know the way I hate mushrooms?”

“Um, do you?”

“Yes! You know I do. Everyone knows I do!”

“All right, all right, calm down.”

“Well, when I was out there the other night she gave me mushrooms on toast for dinner.”

“And…?”

“What do you mean ‘and?’ Isn’t that enough! And I said it to her. I said,

‘Mammy, I hate mushrooms’ and she just said, ‘Oh, I must be mixing you up with Christopher.’”

“That’s shocking, Pete,” I said dryly. “We’ll be lucky if she lives to see the end of the month.”

“Jeer all you like,” he said, sounding hurt. “But there’s more.”

“Do tell.”

“She’s done something funny to her hair.”

“Anything would be an improvement.”

“No, Lucy, it’s funny. It’s all kind of curly and blond, she doesn’t look like Mammy anymore.”

“Ah! Now it all makes sense,” I said solemnly. “There’s no need to worry, Peter, I know exactly what’s up.”

“Well, what is it?”

“She’s got a boyfriend, silly.”

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Poor Peter got very upset. He thought that our mother was like The Blessed Virgin, only more chaste and saintly. But at least I got rid of him and hopefully he wouldn’t bother me with any more ridiculous phone calls. God knows, I had enough real things to worry about.

44

Megan and her housemates were having a party that Saturday night.

She shared a three-bedroom house with twenty-eight other Australians, all of whom did shift work, so there were actually enough beds to sleep whoever needed to sleep at any given time. It just meant that the beds were used on a time-share basis, around the clock, twenty-four hours a day.

Apparently Megan shared a single bed with a roofer called Donnie and a night porter called Shane, neither of whom she ever saw. In fact, she liked to make it sound as if they had never actually met.

She promised me that there would be thousands of single men at the party. (On Thursday, I had sheepishly come clean to my colleagues about Gus’s disappearance.)

I was miserable on Saturday. Without Gus, and Mrs. Nolan’s promise of imminent marriage, my life was so, so, nothingy. There were no added extras, no human accessories, no soft-focus future, no soaring magic, nothing at all to enhance me. I, on my own, was colorless, dull, lucy sullivan is getting married / 337

earthbound, unadorned. I had become the Amish frock of personalities and even I had lost interest in myself.

I didn’t want to go to the party because I was too busy feeling sorry for myself, but I had to, because I’d arranged to meet Jed there. I couldn’t stand him up because he wouldn’t know anyone else. Meredia had other plans.

Of course, Megan would be there, but she

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