Transfusion by Stephanie Hudson

Author:Stephanie Hudson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

With my heart.

Chapter 18

Text me a Torment

“Okay, so explain to me again why it is we have a bodyguard outside our door,” Wendy said after handing me a much-needed glass of wine before she joined me on her couch. Her apartment was also in Twickenham as she’d moved closer to me a few years ago. As, in her words, she was sick of catching one taxi, one bus and then the underground just to get back to her old apartment after seeing me and to be honest, I had felt the same. At one point, we had even talked about moving in together, but she couldn’t yet get a mortgage for her half of the flat we would buy, so she was saving up for a deposit. I told her I didn’t mind but she refused, saying she needed to pay her own way and as I already owned my flat, we decided to wait. Unless of course one of us just so happened to get married first, but two years on from this discussion and that was still yet to happen.

So instead, she found herself a cute one bed place that we had lovingly painted and scrubbed within an inch of its plasterboard thanks to the previous tenant having an attachment to weed. It wasn’t only the smell that gave this away but mainly the big cannabis leaf that was painted on one wall in what would be Wendy’s bedroom. I remember her showing it to me for the first time and we both just stood in the doorway staring at it. I said the first thing that came to mind,

‘Now, I am not an expert here, but I am guessing that would be a big mood killer in the bedroom?’ Of course, I wasn’t just referring to the homage to the plant but more the slogan that had been written beneath it in spray paint, which read…

‘Me Biatches be getting high’

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