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‘You suck,’ her face brightened for a moment and she sat up. ‘Oh! I know, you stole something?’
‘Your heart. Too easy.’
She sagged. ‘You’ve never seen a ghost, even if you had, you’d have rationalised it into a reflection of a painting or something.’
‘Which leaves…’ said Tom.
Elsie looked up, confused. ‘Falling in love at first sight?’
Cole smiled and said nothing.
‘Awww,’ said Anna. ‘You fell in love with the raging psycho the first time you saw her naked?’
Cole burst out laughing and pointed two finger guns at Anna.
‘You’ve never told me that before,’ said Elsie quietly.
‘I knew the moment I saw you,’ he said quietly. ‘Like Anna said, it was just there, in my mind. Something clicked and I knew.’
‘But I was naked and threatening you,’ she laughed.
’It was instinctual, you can tell the difference between acting crazy and actual crazy, and there was something about you… and I just fell in love. There was no way I was leaving that room without you.’
Elsie wiped a solitary tear away from her eye and then she stood up and kissed her husband, pecking his cheek and lips and head over and over.
‘I love you,’ she said. ‘You’re such a cheesy fucker, but I love you.’
‘Well, that was beautiful,’ said Anna as she knocked back her drink. ‘Who’s next?’
‘Whoa, wait - wait, wait! You just drank!’ shouted Elsie, pointing, one hand draped around her husband, stroking his chest with her fingers.
‘Did I?’ she laughed, acting innocent as Tom started to laugh, knowingly.
‘No,’ said Elsie, shocked. ‘You knew?’
He nodded, hiding his face.
‘There might have been one small detail I withheld during an earlier answer.’
‘You have to tell us,’ laughed Elsie.
‘Ok. When I was living in New York, it’s true that I was working as a desk clerk, but I had a second job too.’
Elsie’s eyes widened.
‘And on the day I met Tom, I wasn’t blissfully wandering around, idyllically looking up at the sights.’
‘What were you doing?’
‘I was dressed up as a hot dog.’
Elsie burst into laughter. ‘No way.’
‘Yes way,’ she laughed. ‘I even had a dance.’
She stood up and began to pirouette around the dining room, recalling the steps.
‘We didn’t romantically bump into each other, I knocked him flat because I wasn’t looking where I was going when I did my signature twirl.’
