Watermelon by Marian Keyes

Author:Marian Keyes
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780099489986
Publisher: Random House UK
Published: 2006-01-09T08:00:00+00:00

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Marian Keyes

She said nothing at all about Adam.

And really, I couldn’t, just couldn’t, ask.

Then I heard the phone ring.

The first time it had rung all day. I was off that bed and down those stairs like greased lightning. Thank God I hadn’t asked Helen for Adam’s number, I congratulated myself in relief. I would have given the game away entirely and now there was no need!

“Hello,” I said, trying to sound pleasant and unneurotic and apologetic all at the same time.

Sorry, Adam, I’ll never be mean to you again.

“Yes, hello, can I speak to Jack Walsh?” said a voice.

My first thought was why on earth did Adam want to talk to Dad.

But then I realized that it wasn’t Adam at all on the phone.

The bastard!

How dare he!

Getting me to practically break my neck coming down those stairs only for him not to be him at all.

“Yes, hold on Mr. Brennan. I’ll get him for you,” I said.

And I trudged miserably back up the stairs.

A lot slower than I had come down.

I went back into Helen.

I was suitably humbled.

I still had every need of her.

She was playing with Kate and didn’t see fit to comment on my death-de-fying flight down the stairs. That was one of the great things about being with someone as selfish as Helen. She so rarely took notice of anything that wasn’t happening to her.

Just then Anna arrived, all flowing hair and traipsy skirt and vague expression on her face.

I was delighted to see her. We hadn’t crossed paths since sometime the previous week. She tramped across Helen’s pink and fluffy bedroom in the boots that were breaking Mum’s heart and sat down beside us on the bed.

Out of her bag (embroidered, covered in mirrors and beads) she took about a hundred bars of chocolate and proceeded to efficiently eat her way through them.

I’ve never seen anything quite like it.

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