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Me
Okay. I can meet tomorrow evening. I finish work at 6 p.m., so 6.30 p.m.? Do you know Regent Street?
Lorenzo
Good
Lorenzo
6.30 is good
Lorenzo
yes i know. I went there before on the metro
Me
Fine. Let’s meet for one drink at 6.30 p.m. at All Bar One, Regent Street.
Lorenzo
Perfetto
Lorenzo
i look forward to seeing you
I was careful not to show too much emotion. Last time I had been far too gushy. That’s why the two times he’d said he missed me, I hadn’t reciprocate. I typed out a reply, reiterating the time and location once again so there could be no confusion or excuses for not turning up.
Me
See you tomorrow at All Bar One, Regent Street at 6.30 p.m. Goodnight.
Lorenzo
Kiss
All dayI couldn’t concentrate. I didn’t know what to expect. It had been so sudden. He’d appeared from nowhere. I hadn’t even thought about him much for ages.
Okay, who am I trying to kid? I thought about hima lot. But it wasn’t like those early days where I’dobsessedover him. I wondered what he was doing, if he’d thought about me. And I can’t lie, often when I was with Charlie having sex, I’d dream that it was Lorenzo on top of me instead. I know it was bad, but as hard as I tried, I just couldn’t shake the feelings I’d had that night.
And now he was in London? And I was going to be seeing him in just three hours’ time? Seriously?
I wasn’t as prepared as I would have been with a bit more notice. Although I had no intention of sleeping with him (well, that’s what sensible Sophia said…), I wasn’t going to make the same mistake twice, so I had woken up early (not that I could evengetto sleep after messaging him) and had pruned everything within an inch of its life.
I had just showered at work and changed into a dress. I’d be leaving the office soon for an emergency blow-dry with Josh. Even if it was one drink, I wanted to look and feel my best (and also show him what he’d been missing—childish, I know, but I didn’t care). Plus, I didn’t want to have any grooming regrets like I did last time.
Forty-five minutes to go.
Josh styled my hair in record time, adding some sexy waves. Not dissimilar to my date with Charlie…I did feel a few pangs of guilt.
Unlike all my other dates, I was feeling quite nervous. This wasn’t some posh guy I’d met near the Kings Road or a stranger from Tinder. This was the gorgeous Lorenzo whom I’d shared a night of passion with. Who had kissed me all over. Who, eight months ago, had made me come so spectacularly without us even having sex. And I had been madly in lust with him pretty much ever since.
Lorenzo was the man that made me lose my mind so much that I’d spent days, weeks even stalking his Facebook page. Dreaming about him. The hot chef that I’d sent embarrassing gushy messages to.
He was also the man who’d said he’d meet me in Florence for a weekend together and then stood me up at the last minute. I’d then spent four days there all on my own and getting soaked on that never-ending trip to Cinque Terre, feeling sorry for myself. In fact, what the fuck was I doing going to see him after he’d put me through all that shit? How had I let Reasanna talk me into this? Imagine what the frienmittee would say if they knew I was meeting him.
In fact, Ishouldlet Bella and Roxy know, shouldn’t I? For safety reasons?
