Page 52 of The Seaside Cocktail Campervan

‘Hah, well, the pizza horsebox gets to go to all kind of places, I can tell you. It was good fun actually, and a really nice crowd.’

‘Hah, yes …’ Abby suddenly seemed coy.

‘Well, did he call?’ Lucy quizzed.

The last Lucy had seen was him tapping in her assistant’s number on his phone.

‘Yeah, he did actually.’ Abby had flushed a perfect shade of pink.

‘Whoop, whoop. Aw, I’m pleased for you, hun.’

‘We’re going to meet up next week, actually,’ the young girl added shyly.

‘Aw, that’s brilliant. Good for you, Abby.’ Lucy was delighted for her.

‘Anyway, what about you …?’ asked Abby.

Lucy felt the heat rise from her neck up to her cheeks. She had a dreadful feeling she knew where this was going. ‘What about me?’ she blustered.

‘Well, the last I saw of you … was you up close and kissing Cocktail Campervan Guy. Can’t blame you, mind; he is pretty cute.’

Becky’s mouth dropped open, and a chunk of salted caramel sponge plopped out onto her plate. ‘You are kidding me?! Luce, how the hell could you? After everything I told you. That’s a disaster waiting to happen, that is.’

It already has, mused Lucy, sadly. And so sodding soon too.

‘What am I missing here?’ Katie queried, trying to play catch-up with the drama.

‘I warned you, Luce, that guy is toxic. Are you nuts?’ Becky’s cheeks had gone bright pink.

‘It’s okay. It wasn’t what it looked like, Becks.’ Okay, so it was, but there is never going to be a repeat performance, not after watching last night’s spectacle with the damsel in distress. ‘I’d lost Daisy, and well, Jack had been the one to find her. I was just so relieved and I did give him a hug to thank him. But that was it. It might have just looked like something more,’ she rambled with a blush.

Abby gave a frown and looked rather sceptical, but she didn’t want to argue with her new boss.

With that, Louise called over from the counter, ‘Got an order to go out here, Abby.’

‘Okay, I’m coming,’ she replied, and then dashed away to help, leaving Lucy red in the face and feeling sore in the heart.

Oh, yes. Lesson well and truly learned.

With Becky still sat shaking her head, she and Katie slipped once again into easy chat. It seemed, Lucy hoped, they’d fallen for the little white lie.

Well done Joshua on your Graduation

and well done to Helen for putting up with me for Fifty Years!

Join us Golden Oldies on Saturday 17th July

at home

7 p.m. onwards for food, fun and festivities.

Best wishes, David x

Chapter 30

Why did he get the feeling that Lucy was trying to avoid him?

Jack had been serving drinks for an hour already and, other than a brief reply to his ‘Hello’ on arrival, she’d hardly looked his way. Jeez, he never seemed to know where he stood with this exasperating, but bloody gorgeous, woman. She blew hotter and colder than anyone he’d ever met.