The Girl Who Was Going to Die by Glyn Maxwell

The Girl Who Was Going to Die by Glyn Maxwell

Author:Glyn Maxwell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781407021430
Publisher: Random House


You will meet a tall, dark stranger, and you will say no to him until the day you say yes

##### ALLO ALLO. NOUS SOMMES PAS CHEZ NOUS. LAISSEZ-VOUS UNE MESSAGE, S’IL VOUS PLAIT. HELLO HELLO. WE ARE NOT AT THE HOUSE OF US! LEAVE YOU A MESSAGE IF IT PLEASES YOU!

Mum. I’m at Gatwick okay it’s five in the morning. I keep trying your number but no one’s ever there. I only got the message last night and there wasn’t a night flight so I spent the night here and my flight’s at eight I’ll be there by lunch I come into Nice. No one has to meet me I’ll get a taxi someone lent me some money I have the address.

Look Mum I only know he’s alive because I got through to a hospital, like the fifth one I tried and all in French how resourceful is that? That was pretty horrible Mum. It would’ve been nice if you’d, well, anyway.

They said he was asleep and you’d gone home for a rest but I tried and you weren’t there, I suppose you had the machine on mute or something. Please try and call me if you get this message. Please make it a sort of priority for you.

I only didn’t pick up the phone because the TV people picked it up but that’s all over like you said, it was a nine-day wonder. Well, twenty-nine but still. I’m just going to come down and help okay? Okay. Bye.

*

####### ##### Hello? Hello who’s there? Hello?

It’s me, Min.

My God! Suse! It’s so, actually I have my agent on can I put you on hold?

What?

Can I put you on hold I have my agent on!

No. Get stuffed.

####### ####### ####### ####### ####### ####### ####### ####### ###### What.

Suse.

Min.

I finished my other call.

Okay. Well done.

It was from my agent.

I’ve got an agent.

Where are you?

Gatwick.

With the show?

What?

To do with the show?

No. My dad’s had a stroke. I’m going to the south of France. Fuck the show.

Oh.

But he’s okay, to answer your next question.

Thank God! Wow, bloody hell thank God for that!

He had an ‘ischaemic’ something, I wrote it down. It happens to people his age. Well, him anyway. He’s asleep in hospital in Nice. My mum’s . . . somewhere.

You must be so relieved Suse.

I saw you on the show.

Right. How come you didn’t know about my dad then.

They didn’t mention your dad.

What?

They didn’t mention him.

Okay. Well they didn’t give me the message for five hours so that’s par for the course. What did they say.

They said it was over.

Drop Dead Gorgeous is over?

No, your bit, The Babe in Bed Forever is over. They just showed you walking out of the door with that girl

Roberta

Roberta de Coex, with your suitcase.

She helped me pack, she gave me a lift. She was crying, I just stared out the window. It was like, cue the rain.

They showed the car going into the distance, and through the rain on the windows that big fat bloke you know your ex?

Oh for fuck’s sake

He was rocking back and forward

Points

Yeah Points he seemed pretty down.



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