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“Well, as long as you’re not planning to wait around all your life and swoop in there if something happens to Adam?”
He laughs hard. “Thought had crossed my mind, seeing as though I’m her favourite out of all his friends.”
“That’s not difficult, the rest she’s hardly spent time with, and most of them don’t have your looks or intellect.”
“Why, thanks,” he says, in a Southern Belle’s accent.
He always makes me laugh.
“As long as they’re not going to try and matchmake us.” I turn and give him a look. “So they can turn us into their perfect partners for double dating or some crap.”
He sighs and I chuckle at his obvious, still-there obsession.
“Let’s not tell her about our pact,” he chuckles, “but gently let her believe there’s a chance.”
I turn my nose up at him and snort. “Always been the rough and ready ones for me, far too pretty you are, Theo.”
“Fuck off,” he growls, and I turn the radio up louder, starting a sing song he’s eager to join in with.
“Hey guys,” she says, welcoming us in. God, she looks perfect in tight jeans and a cute pink cashmere polo neck. “Did you find us okay?”
“No problem at all, your directions were really good.” I hug her in the hallway. “I like your house, very sweet.”
They have a terrace house, two-up, two-down, from what I can tell.
I move into the hallway and Theo’s behind me, throwing his arms around her next.
“So glad you could come,” she says, diminutive when placed next to Theo, who’s 6’4 while she’s around 5’6. I’m 5’10 and more a match for Theo, I suppose.
Adam comes barrelling towards me, wrapping me up in a big bear hug. “I’m so happy to see you.”
“Me too, you missed Christmas Eve.”
He still has hold of me. “How bad was it?”
“Fucking abysmal,” Theo replies for me, and we swap, Adam and Theo hugging next.
“Let’s give you the tour!” Adam exclaims, matching Susan in jeans and a lovely chunky-knit sweater.
Adam moves back a couple of paces and opens the door to the sitting room, just off the corridor. “It’s a bit chilly in there right now, we’ll light the fire later.”
“Nice,” I mutter, as me and Theo peek our heads around the door.
It must be Victorian or something this place, because the ceilings are too high and the windows and doors are oversized. The sitting room has a huge fireplace, original wood floors and a big rug, corner sofa, mounted TV and lots of bookshelves.
Adam leads us down the corridor to an open-plan kitchen next. It’s vast.
“Wow,” I exclaim.
“Isn’t it amazing?” Susan gushes.
It must be the length of nearly the entire house.
“Wow,” Theo agrees.
“There’s a lav down the bottom,” Adam explains, “but we had two living rooms and we didn’t need them. The dining area before was tiny so we knocked some walls through, and et violà!”
“Wow, I mean…” There’s something cooking in the oven that smells great, but it’s more than that.
