Purgatory Is a Place Too by Dominique Kyle

Author:Dominique Kyle
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2016-07-11T05:00:00+00:00

The Skeggie UK Championship Speed Week. We’d arrived in time for the Thursday evening slot, but nothing ever happened on the Friday. That day off served as our yearly family beach holiday. We were all lounging around in the hot sand feeling sleepy when I saw a recognisable figure heading across the beach towards us. I waved at him as he approached.

“Hi Rob!” I called.

“I had a feeling I might find you lot here again,” he greeted us. He and Paul nodded coolly at each other. Sue politely proffered him a bottle of lemonade. He shook his head, then looked ironically down at the meticulously built sand cars in front of us. “So who won this year?” He inquired dryly.

“Pete and Cody,” I informed him.

Cody looked up. She was looking ridiculously young with her wild copper curls tied up in bunches and dressed in an lurid orange swimsuit with bright pink strawberries all over it. “Who won last year?” She asked curiously.

“There wasn’t a last year,” Jo explained. “The weather was foul. But the year before, Eve and Tyler won.”

“Tyler..?” Cody echoed vaguely with a frown.

“Tyler and Eve,” Rob mused with a smile. “Now that was always going to be a winning combination…” He sat down beside me and leant back against the rock we were all using as a backrest.

Cody looked round at him. “Who are you?” She asked with childlike directness.

“He’s Rob Rudd,” Jo said coolly.

Cody stared at him. “The Rob Rudd?”

Rob’s lips twitched. “I guess that depends how many Rob Rudds there are, and which one you’re thinking of.”

“There’ll only be one Rob Rudd that she knows about,” I said repressively. “Yes, Cody, the Rob Rudd.”

She stood up, walked round, and stood in front of him completely unselfconsciously, looking intently at him. He looked back up at her, eyes squinting against the sun, then after a moment or two his lips started twitching again. “Well?” He challenged. “Do I pass muster?”

“I’m going for a swim,” she said suddenly, turning away, “Anyone coming?”

“No, I’m never ever setting foot in water again,” I declared militantly. “Never!” That windsurfing business had put me off for life.

Cody galloped off by herself towards the water.

Rob glanced at me. “What happened there?”

I started laughing. “ADHD Rob, she probably forgot she was even thinking about you half way through the sentence!”

Pete grinned. “That’s why she never wins anything. She starts off ok and then half way round she stops to pick daisies…”

I groaned. “Tell me about it!”

“You still waggling your tail in front of her every lap?” Rob teased.

“No, I’ve recruited Wentworth’s backside to the job.” I told him.

“Please rephrase that,” Jo said in pained tones.

“Wentworth’s stuck on her, so I asked him to do a bit of bumper flirting to make her chase him,” I explained.

“Wentworth’s not stuck on her,” Pete said with a laugh. “He’s got a crush on you, you idiot!”

“Don’t be silly,” I protested, frowning at him.

“So why does he blush whenever he talks to you then?” Pete challenged with a grin.

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