Weirwolf by David Weir

Author:David Weir [David Weir]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781849546508
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2013-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

SETTLING DOWN

I hadn’t had much luck with relationships. After the split from Kaylie I had become deeply distrustful of women. Over time those feelings had eased but I was still very cautious. I didn’t want to get hurt again. When I came back from Beijing I had a few flings but nothing serious. Then I met Emily Thorne.

It was May 2009 and I was taking it pretty easy on the training front. I was just having a drink in my local when I saw her. She was just popping out for a fag and I said hello. I knew who she was but we hadn’t really spoken before. She didn’t live on the estate, but she was still local. I stopped her in the doorway and talked to her for a bit. Then, either later that night or the day after, we connected through Facebook and started to chat.

From there, things moved pretty fast. I took her to the cinema to see the Dan Brown sequel to The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons. She didn’t like it very much but the film was irrelevant. It was the start of something really special.

At first I was slightly worried Emily was a bit young – I was twenty-nine and she was nineteen. But she didn’t talk or act like someone immature. She wasn’t young in the head – she probably acted older than me sometimes. She was like no one else I have ever been with. She knew I was into wheelchair athletics, but she didn’t really know what I had done, and had no idea that I’d won gold medals in Beijing or anything like that. When she came to understand, it didn’t make any difference. I liked that about her. From the very start, really, I knew she was the one. You just get that feeling, don’t you? You can’t explain it. She is just so genuine and caring, a decent person to talk to. She tells me now that in the early days when we had just started going out all I used to talk about was my racing. I must have been quite boring and I guess I’m lucky she’s still here. I just talked about racing and training. But it’s that honesty that has changed me as a person. It’s made me better as a racer. I can now switch off and try to talk about other things.

After about a month we started talking seriously about moving in together. She had left school with good grades and was working in the local branch of NatWest. She was renting her own flat but because I was on my own in the house she used to stay over a lot. The first time she stayed, I dropped her back at her house at 6 a.m. because I had to go to training. It gave her a taste of what was to come, but she took it well.

Given my past experiences I wondered whether things were going too quickly, whether I was stepping in too fast.

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