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‘Parched?’ laughed Tom. ‘We had sex last night.’
‘Sorry, hubby,’ Anna was laughing so hard now that she could barely finish her sentence.
‘What about you Elsie?’ said Tom, shaking his head in despair.
She smiled for a moment. ‘Other than you, of course,’ she said. Then as she reminisced, her eyes glazed over. ‘I met up with an old Uni friend last year. He’d aged well.’
‘Was he an old flame?’ said Anna, drying her eyes.
‘Something like that.’
‘That’s very brave of you, Mr Winters,’ said Anna, nodding at Cole. ‘Letting your wife meet up with an attractive ex-squeeze?’
‘Well, some people do describe me as a tall dark cup of handsome,’ he said without skipping a beat. ‘She always comes home to me.’
‘I have no doubt,’ she turned her gaze on Tom. ‘Come on then, dear husband. Next question.’
‘Never have I ever, stalked an ex on social media,’ said Tom.
The room fell silent.
All four of them drank and immediately burst into laughter.
‘Moving on!’ said Anna, holding her glass up high. ‘Cole, quick! Save us!’
‘Oh, fuck erm… Never have I ever, cheated on any of my partners? Present company included,’ he said, a knife edge to his tone as he licked his lips and flicked his eyebrows.
‘That’s worse!’ shouted Anna, her eyes wild with panic.
Cole’s drink stayed still, and so did Tom’s but after a brief flicker, Elsie’s fingers flexed as she made eye contact with her new friend - as though they each knew and could feel the other’s guilt but neither wanted to be the first to admit it.
Anna broke first, slamming her drink back, and a second later, Elsie joined her.
‘Not on you, just to be clear,’ she declared quickly, turning to her husband and then back towards Elsie. ‘There’s honesty and there’s marital suicide, am I right?’
Elsie giggled as she nodded, wiping her lips with the back of her wrist. Fuck she wanted to kiss this woman.
‘I did however, have a sneaky little snog with a boy who was not my boyfriend at the time, at a party in college. But it was just a kiss… that lasted around an hour… with some petting.’
‘Petting?’
‘He touched a boob,’ she burst into a fit of giggles as she said this, holding up her finger. ‘Just one.’
‘Elsie?’ said Cole, leaning forward, his eyes wide.
‘At least twice on you,’ she half joked, winking. ‘I did sleep with someone else in the first week of University, whilst I was still with my college boyfriend. I felt awful, we’d agreed to try out a long distance relationship but I wasn’t really into the idea. There was this really hot guy on my course - in hindsight he was a total prick - and I ended up bringing him back to my dorm one night and fucking his brains out.’
‘Wow,’ said Anna, nodding. ‘I mean, you’re a terrible person and you should be ashamed.’
‘I am ashamed! I broke up with my boyfriend a few weeks later.’
‘Did you sleep with him again before you broke up with him?’
‘Yes,’ she said sheepishly, looking down and biting her lip in guilt. ‘In my defence, they were both really hot.’
‘That’s not a defense,’ laughed Anna. ‘That’s boasting.’
‘I’m sorry,’ she said.
