You’re On Your Own, Kid (IT’S A LOVE STORY) by Cora Dalley EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Cora Dalley
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I was a stupid little girl when I told George I loved him. Sunburned and
fifteen, the straps of my sundress sliding down my shoulders. He had been
twenty. He was kind as he turned me down, he was always kind to me. It
was the reason I loved him. And afterwards he left me, standing by the pool
while the noise of the party continued indoors, turned to stone by the pain
of it.
Life is defined as much by the things you avoid as it is by the things you
pursue, and my life had been defined by avoiding George, my best friend’s
brother, for ten years. Then the wedding invitation was posted through the
letterbox, and I couldn’t avoid him anymore.
Adam comes up behind me while I’m staring at the doormat.
‘A summons?’ he jokes, looking over my shoulder.
‘Something like that.’ Before I can pick it up Adam bends like a gymnast
and swipes it out of my reach.
‘It’s nice foiling.’ He turns it over and the silver lettering glints in the
light from the wide windows of the hallway. ‘Actually, this might be just
what I need to talk Jay into putting foiled detail on the hardback.’
He hands it to me and walks back into the kitchen where his husband is
cutting up fruit for breakfast. When he’s gone I walk back through the hall,
clutching the invitation to my chest, past their kitchen, up their stairway
lined with framed photos of their wedding day, past their bedroom in which
their honey-coloured cockapoo is sleeping, up a second, smaller set of stairs
to my little rented room.
I’d known this day was coming. Ever since Frannie had posted a picture
of herself and Theo together on holiday in Japan the year before, under a
canopy of cherry blossoms, a ring sparkling on her finger. I had texted her
congratulations and she had called me a few hours later, crying down the
phone in a way that was so unlike the woman I knew.
‘You’ll be a bridesmaid, won’t you Hydie?’ Frannie had said, her voice
thick with sobs, ‘We’re having the wedding in Spain, at the chapel where
my parents were married. I want you there with me.’
I had agreed in the moment and, after hanging up the phone, had gone
hot with panic. The joy and excitement I felt for my oldest friend
evaporated as I realised I would inevitably have to see George at the
wedding, after all this time. From the day that he had left me standing by
the pool at Frannie’s party I had done everything in my power to avoid him.
When Frannie invited me to her house after school, I would make excuses
when I knew he was home from university. I feigned sickness when invited
to her eighteenth birthday party, booked a holiday that I knew would clash
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