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“Thank you, Thomas. You are good.” Mama Z turned to her husband. “Let us cool our heads and talk to our daughter tomorrow. Maria will be back from the mines tomorrow, too. We all talk later.”
As I left in my ute, I couldn’t help but think their daughter was going to have a very sore head in the morning.
10
TOM
#STAMwedding Group Chat:
Today 6.48 p.m.:
Amanda: I have three proposed dates for bridesmaid dress shopping in Sydney. Have a look at your diaries and see which one suits best and post back into the group. Lily will be back home by then.
Amanda: Let me know asap as I need to confirm accommodation in Sydney
“Gimme a kiss,” Rosie demanded of a group of guys. “Anyone of you will do. I’m single!”
Within two minutes of arriving at the pub and ordering a light beer, Rosie had yelled three times across the public bar for someone to kiss her. She’d drunk an impressive amount for the short time she’d been here and was determined to have her version of fun.
Thank god Pete was back in town and staying here overnight. We’d claimed a free high table and couple of stools to keep an eye on Rosie and her antics.
“Farm sale looks to go through with the solicitors tomorrow morning,” Pete said.
“How do you feel about that?” I asked carefully.
Pete shrugged, wistful. “I’ll miss the place, I guess. But Mum and Dad got a decent price considering and the money can set them up somewhere else. So there’s that.”
Pete then laughed, looking Rosie up and down as she danced on the spot making kissing noises with her pursed lips, and I clenched my fists. Scratch any thought of him being good company. Was he actually thinking of kissing her?
He then cut a glance at me and grinned.
I knew that grin. Pete was about to play me.
“Rosie!” He called out, getting her attention. “You know who you should kiss?”
“Who? Tell me!” she shouted back, sloshing her beer on the floor.
“Tom,” my now-ex-best friend said.
He slapped my back, laughing, and the small crowd around us oohed and ahhed. I shook my head and sipped my light beer. The last thing I needed was to blush in front of this lot.
“I can’t kiss him. He’s got a girlfriend.” Rosie pouted.
I’d wondered how much she’d heard of last night’s tiff with Ainslee, but who knew what Rosie remembered after what she’d drunk.
“He broke up with her. Trust me, I know it’s true!” Pete said in a louder voice. “Did you know he always stared at you like you’re whipped cream in his senior year of high school?”
“What does that even mean?” I asked, shaking my head again.
“Like you wanted to eat her up,” Pete said with a shit-eating grin.
I walked right into that one. Heat moved up my neck and settled in my cheeks. Little did Pete know I had the pleasure of feasting on Rosie during my senior year.
“Aww, look. Tom Cat’s embarrassed,” someone crowed behind me.
Rosie giggled.
“Do you still want to eat me, Tom?” she whispered, attempting to flutter her eyelids, but instead it looked like she had something wrong with her eye.
