This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Sophie Cousens
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- Genre: Contemporary Women’s Fiction
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New Year’s Eve 2019
The Night Jam was rammed. Pounding music pulsed through the club and the
walls felt sticky with sweat, alcohol and likely worse. Minnie held tightly to
Greg’s hand as they jostled through the crowd near the door.
‘We’re never going to get to the bar,’ Greg shouted back to her.
‘What?’ Minnie yelled back, her ears adjusting to the heavy bass.
‘We won’t be able to get a drink before midnight. I don’t even know where
Lucy’s party is,’ said Greg.
He pointed upwards, indicating they should try to push their way upstairs
to the terrace on the mezzanine above. Minnie looked at her watch – it was
ten to midnight. So far, this whole evening was only validating her hatred of
New Year’s Eve. Why hadn’t she stayed at home and gone to bed early?
Then she remembered that her heating had been cut off – she’d come out to
keep warm. And Greg had been determined to go to his work friend’s party;
she would have felt like a bad girlfriend if she’d made him go alone.
Minnie let herself be dragged through the throng of pulsating bodies.
Finally, they emerged from the crush, stepping out into the cool night air
where the thumping bass from the club settled to a more manageable decibel.
‘Watch it!’ Greg said, pushing a drunk guy out of his way. Greg glared at
the man, trying to make him notice he’d spilt his beer on someone, but the
man was too far gone to care.
‘I did warn you about spending New Year with me,’ said Minnie.
‘Will you stop with this jinxed stuff?’ said Greg, shaking his head.
‘Honestly, it’s a thing; bad things happen to me at New Year’s. I wouldn’t
be surprised if this whole building went up in flames before the night’s out.
Or perhaps a very small asteroid lands right where I’m standing.’
‘I don’t think we’re having a terrible night because you’re jinxed; I think
we’re having a terrible night because you dragged us to dinner at weird
Alan’s house on the other side of the galaxy. Now we’re arriving at a party
two seconds to midnight when everyone’s high on moon juice and … come
in Star Command?’ Greg lifted a finger to his ear, pausing to listen to an
imaginary transmission, ‘Mission control says we’re not even at the right
party.’
‘Permission to abort the mission?’ Minnie asked hopefully.
‘Denied,’ said Greg.
Minnie and Greg had been dating for five months. They’d met at a march
outside City Hall, protesting the lack of affordable housing in London. Greg
was the journalist covering the story and Minnie was there supporting Mrs
Melvin, a lady she had been delivering food to since the early days of her
business. Minnie and her friend Leila had made a sign for the march that said,
‘HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT’, but they’d used too much paint on the
first ‘H’ so it looked a bit like an ‘M’. On the march, Minnie, Leila and Mrs
Melvin found themselves walking next to a group of people dressed as large
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