The No Texting Policy by Nicki Bell

Author:Nicki Bell [Bell, Nicki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-24T00:00:00+00:00

FIVE

Kayleigh

‘That is your fifth burger,’ I informed Matt as he continued to smother a bun in ketchup and mayonnaise.

‘So? It’ll only go to waste if I don’t eat it,’ he spat, before cramming it into his mouth. ‘Mum told us she didn’t want to throw anything away.’

Sweat trickled down his forehead onto his nose. It wasn’t often we had warm weather in Scotland. But when the mercury edged over eighteen degrees in June, we considered it barbecue time.

‘You’re not a bear about to go into hibernation,’ I commented, rubbing factor fifty into my legs. Sitting under the shade of a parasol didn’t mean my milk-white skin couldn’t still burn.

He pointed to my oil-slicked arms. ‘And you’re not a pig we’re about to roast.’

‘Easy for you to say.’ I continued rubbing sun cream onto my neck and around my shoulders. Matt inherited our dad’s ability to turn brown in 0.3 seconds, while I inherited the lobster quality from my mother.

‘Jealousy isn’t a good look on you, sis.’ He wiped a smudge of ketchup from his lip. ‘How are things with Jordan?’

I’d spent the last five hours avoiding him and Matt’s friends in our parents’ spacious garden, making small talk with the neighbours and helping Mum out in the kitchen until Ashley and three of my former bridesmaids turned up. ‘Fine, why?’

Matt balled up the napkin in his hand. ‘Really? You’ve been avoiding him since he got here.’

Do we have some psychic sibling thing I haven’t tapped into? ‘Have not.’

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