Seven Sunny Days by Chris Manby

Author:Chris Manby
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Dress Ink
Published: 2003-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Carrie Ann knew she should have been able to find more of her sense of humour in the face of the vibrator debacle, but try as she might, she couldn’t bring herself to see the funny side that morning.

She knew that Yaslyn and Rachel loved her and would never intentionally hurt her, but the constant ribbing she’d been subject to since their arrival in Turkey was beginning to grate. It was all very well for them to try to force her into the arms of any passing thing with a penis. They were both happily attached to wonderful men. It was safe for them to flirt. For Carrie Ann, every flirtation carried so much more meaning. Every little knock-back hurt so much more because it seemed to take her that much closer to the final rejection that would condemn her to a miserable old age on her own.

She’d been very brave about her divorce, her friends told her. That was only because she let them think that, always careful not to break down in company. The reward was that everyone thought she was a trooper. She was still invited to dinner parties and on holidays like this one because nobody thought she would be a miserable drag talking of nothing but her last failed relationship.

Carrie Ann had seen it happen to other women. For the first few weeks after a break-up, the girlfriends would rally round with support. But it was never long before people decided that you really should be ‘over it’ and simply dropped you from their ‘friends and family’ calling circle if they suspected you might want to whinge about the Bastard Ex long after you should have dusted yourself off and started throwing yourself into the search for a new one.

Though sometimes Carrie Ann wondered whether being dropped from the social whirl wouldn’t be preferable to the alternative. Her new single status gave her access to a nightmare world she had hitherto only read about in the problem pages of women’s magazines. As ‘spare woman’ she had been pair-matched to a dizzying succession of unsuitable men.

‘You’ll like this one’ was always the promise, as Carrie Ann hopefully dolled herself up for another dinner party only to find that she had been seated next to the world’s most boring man. There had been Neil, who drove a Porsche but was still living with his parents at thirty-four. Then Jasper, who referred to girls as ‘fillies’ and suggested that they were finished as ‘breeders’ after the age of twenty-nine. Then Peter, the whizz-kid IT consultant who may well have had a flat in London’s Docklands and an apartment in San Francisco, but made Morten look like a master of social niceties. ‘Your teeth are very yellow,’ he told Carrie Ann as he sat next to her at dinner, then later had the gall to look surprised when she declined the offer of a date.

They were the kind of stories that made Yaslyn and Rachel roar with laughter, but Carrie Ann was tired of her love life as a stand-up comedy routine.

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