One Kiss Before Christmas: The perfect heartwarming holiday romance to curl up with in 2020 by Emma Jackson

Author:Emma Jackson [Jackson, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409199441
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2020-11-01T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Wednesday 11th December

Ashleigh – 34 Tilgate Road, Brighton

After spending yesterday evening working on the calculations for the pattern pieces, Ashleigh’s job for the day was to draw them out and cut them from her pattern paper to make the templates, then pin them all to her mannequin and check to see if it needed any adjustments.

It was also her job today to sneak out and put up the Christmas lights with Olivier at some point, and honestly, she didn’t know what she was feeling most excited about.

A restlessness that was making her feel like she could do the London to Brighton run and, still have enough energy to get everything done, was fizzing through her veins. Knowing Olivier was just next door was somehow both comforting and making her feel like she could barely restrain herself from going around there early.

Something in her had switched – maybe it was Romesh reassuring her that Olivier liked her too, or just how much fun she’d been having; the way she felt in herself when she was around him – like she could choose to look on the bright side and find her own magic. He was one of her best friends and the fear she’d felt when he left seven years ago and she’d chosen not to call him had possibly robbed her of years of laughter and understanding between them. She knew she didn’t want that to happen again. For the rest of the time he was here in England, she wanted to spend as much as she could with him.

But she had work to do first. So, as soon as she’d had breakfast, she pushed the coffee table out of the way in the living room so she could roll out her paper and start marking things out. The only issue was that the carpet underneath kept making her pencil marks wobble off line and sometimes the nib tore through. She’d never made anything so big before that it couldn’t fit on the kitchen table.

‘You need something hard underneath,’ her nan said, standing behind the sofa and holding on to the back of it.

‘I know.’ Ash sighed. ‘But what’s big enough?’

‘The kitchen floor?’

‘I suppose, I’m just a bit more in the way there aren’t I?’

‘You aren’t in the way here?’

Ashleigh looked up with a frown. ‘I thought you were behind me with this project?’

Nan sighed and shook her head. ‘Oh, don’t be so sensitive please. There’s no denying that you’re taking up a lot of room.’

Ash looked down at the roll of paper spread out over the floor. She was taking up a lot of space but it was only for a couple of days. After Olivier made her reconsider some of her assumptions about how Nan felt when Mum had left her to live with her, Ash had been wondering if she shouldn’t try applying that lens to all of her nan’s behaviour.

But it was awfully hard when you were blatantly being told you were in the way.

‘I know why you’ve not been able to do this in your room too,’ Nan added.

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