The Importance of Being Aisling by Emer McLysaght

Author:Emer McLysaght
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781405938235
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2018-08-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

The screaming is mortifying. Antony and Don can definitely hear it as they close the door to suite 353 of the MGM Grand. I’d say the whole floor can hear it.

‘Well? Are you a new woman?’ Majella is about two inches from my face as I collapse back onto the couch. The fruit bowl has been delivered, thanks be to Jesus. Although you wouldn’t want to be starving. There’s about four grapes, a suggestion of pineapple and a suspiciously large helping of chopped up apple. And don’t get me started on the melon. A filler fruit if ever there was one.

‘Will you stop?’ My cheeks are burning for about the sixtieth time in twenty-four hours. I feel fizzy inside. I feel a bit like cackling out the window or running a 10k or something. Although I’ve done the Mini Marathon several times and 10k is no laughing matter. One year I nearly had to give up out by UCD. It was fierce warm and people were dropping like flies. Majella had been out the night before and an old lady offered her a go in her wheelchair at one stage. She took it and all.

Anyway, I am a bit like a new woman. I’ve been with John so long and only one other fella before him. Antony’s been throwing me around the bed – and the floor, I tried not to count the bottles while I was down there – for the past hour, and I didn’t even care that the girls knew what we were up to. Although, emerging from the bedroom, this time clad in my Winnie the Pooh pyjamas rather than the sheet, all I could look at was the floor. And then he went in for the goodbye kiss. ‘Goodbye, Irish. Don’t be a stranger.’ I thought Sadhbh and Majella were going to explode. I decide to just give in to their quizzing and get it over and done with.

‘How many times?’

‘Twice, I think’

‘Was one of them in the shower? There was definitely something going on in the shower last night.’

‘Oh. Three times then, maybe.’

Pause for screaming.

‘Is he nice?’

‘Sooo nice. We were talking about work and life and Daddy and everything.’

Pause for aaahing.

‘What was he saying?’

‘Ah, this and that. Did you know he set up his own business when he lost his job? He was telling me all about it. He was saying … he was saying would I not do something like that. I think he thinks I own a zoo, though. Something was lost in translation about the farm and that one summer we had llamas. Still, though, maybe he’s right? If there was something I was good at or passionate about, like. Antony managed it.’

‘And look at him now,’ Sadhbh interjects. ‘Don says he’s one of the best people he’s ever worked with. His small label was bought by the one taking on The Peigs. Antony is really high up.’

Majella nudges me. ‘Fair play, girl. He had his eye on you all night.

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