Wilde Women by Louise Pentland

Author:Louise Pentland [Pentland, Louise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction
Published: 2019-07-02T16:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

THE NEXT TWO WEEKS are a blur of anticipation, anxiety, packing and phone calls.

Lyla is absolutely dancing on the ceiling at the prospect of New York. I’ve never done a big trip like this with her; our only holidays have been little UK minibreaks. Simon was a bit huffy when I told him I was taking Lyla away for three weeks and missing the last week of term. But his attitude evaporated when I asked him if he fancied having her for all of that time – managing her end-of-term social whirl, laundering the approximately eight tonnes of uniform, PE kits, lost property and goodness knows what else she keeps at school, plus explaining that he’d have to be the one to break it to her that he wanted her to spend three weeks enjoying whale song and gong baths with him and Storie, while I painted the town red in New York. He relented pretty damn quickly and seemed happy when I said he could spend some extra time with her in the school holidays, and he muttered something about a yurt and an organic family festival Storie fancied.

Kath has rung multiple times asking how many cases of her lavender creations she can bring. She plans to see if little shops and boutiques will stock them while she’s out there. After attending her first WWW meeting and reading every tip, trick and comment on the Facebook group, this is her master plan for expansion: Lavender Lovies is going stateside. Problem is, I’ve had to make several calls to the airline to see how much three extra suitcases would cost, and if we can bring scented lavender powder and aromatherapy oils on the plane. ‘Tell them I’m not making an actual bomb, just a bath bomb,’ Kath said in the background while I was talking to Meghan from Virgin Airlines. Nothing makes a phone call to an airline more exciting than a middle-aged woman saying ‘bomb’ repeatedly.

Lacey was also fretting, but mainly about the flight with a tiny baby, which I can understand. We’ve moved our seats to the bulkhead so she can have a skycot, and reassured her that between her, Kath, Lyla and I, we’ve got it covered.

I haven’t let on to Kath and Lacey, but, as is becoming a thing lately, I’m feeling a bit tense, too. I’ve barely seen Edward these last two weeks, let alone spent quality time with him. We feel like ships in the night.

Edward is flying out a couple of days before us for work and he’ll be staying at his apartment to start packing up his stuff for The Big Move. Natalie and Martin fly out the day before us to get the keys to the house and, I suspect, to have a less chaotic travel experience than coming with all of us. I bet they’re flying first class.

The pressure of ensuring that everyone’s OK, packing my own kit and thinking about the actual job at hand is getting to me.

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