“But did we reallyknow?” she asked, glancing up again. “We were so young.”
“We clearly thought we did, enough to talk about our future life together. A house by the beach, one beagle and a pug. You joked about breeding puggles. And two kids, but only in our early thirties. Remember?” I said.
Her reaction to my words was instantaneous. She sat up straight and looked so uncomfortable like she was about to climb out of her skin.
“You and I,together, it feels like it belongs to a different universe. It was a lifetime ago and it feels as if it happened in a totally different reality to the one we’re living in now.”
But as she said it, and as I looked at her, I began to wonder if that was entirely true, for me anyway. If you’d asked me a month ago whether Ash and I lying in bed together, fingers woven into each other’s, planning our life together was in a different universe, I would have said yes. But now it didn’t feel as far away as it used to, or perhaps it should be.
CHAPTER 21
Ash
As soon as we landed, I pulled my phone out and messaged everyone while we waited for the car to fetch us from the landing strip.
Ash:HEDOESOWNAFUCKINGLLAMA!!!!!!!
Ash:ANDHEHADHALF-NAKEDPHOTOSOFMODELSONHISPHONE!!!!!
Frank:Top half or bottom half?
Melusi:Only a straight male asks that question.
Frank:Hahah.
Ash:Top half.
Frank:And?
Ash:Great boobs.
Yo:Perky?
Ash:Why are we asking so many boob questions? The point is, there were boobs, in a photo. A photo he had after a photo of his pet llama named Lucy.
Russ:How many women were in this half-naked photo?
Ash:Two.
Ash:OMG, does that mean what I think it means?
Charlie:Threesome.
Ash:He said that it was just topless tanning, you know, very European.
Yo:That is true. Europeans all have their boobs on display when the sun comes out.
Charlie:I’m still going with threesome. The guy has a llama, so one part of the rumor confirmed.
Frank:
Sarah:So hang on . . . are we now thinking all the other rumors are true then?
Charlie:We’re thinking there could be more truth in them than we initially thought.
Melusi:We are talking about ourselves in the collective first person!
Frank:Hahaha!
