Lou and I easily slipped back into our previous comfortable state of young lovers – young love, apart from being exhilarating and silly, is very forgiving. I pushed my suspicions aside in favour of surrendering to her completely. This worked for about a month, until Lou and Alex stayed late at the office every day [...]
“An apology, I guess,” Lou said. “If that’s not too much to ask.” “An apology for what exactly?” “For going off on me like that this morning.” Were she and Vic in on this together? Were they playing a really twisted joke on me? Whatever was going on, I was missing the most important piece [...]
Vic straightened her neck and pulled her mouth into a wide grin. “I’m fucking with you, Lee,” she said. “Lou absolutely adores you. If I didn’t love her as a sister it would make me sick to bear witness to your endless smoochfest day in day out.” She picked a piece of toast from my [...]
I couldn’t shake my suspicions. I paced Lou’s room, still undressed and un-showered and waited for the clock to turn eleven – a decent time to call Alex. “What’s going on, Alex?” I asked him off the bat. “Are they seeing each other behind my back?” “Whatever happened to good morning, Leesbian? And who are [...]
For three months after Sarah’s departure I was happy, over the moon, ecstatic – the hormones coursing through my blood all at their ideal levels. Three months in which Lou and I visited Sarah in Manchester and witnessed her literary triumph together. Three months in which we couldn’t whisper enough I-love-yous in each other’s ears. [...]