She’d been so determined not to think of him at all, but now here he was intruding into her thoughts again.
‘You’re thinking about him again, aren’t
you?’ Melissa’s voice brought her back from the brink.
‘Only a little,’ Anna said unable to
keep her voice from trembling. She flopped
down into the comfort of the sofa, trying to swallow the lump in her throat. Melissa sat down next to her.
‘That man is such an arse,’ she said. ‘I mean really, Anna, I’d never known such an
idiot until I met your man. Hats off to
you for picking a corker there!’Anna felt the lump lessen a little. She smiled. ‘You’re right of course. He is an arse.’
‘Took you long enough to realise it.’
Anna gave Melissa a playful punch. ‘I suppose I was refusing to admit what he was really like because I wanted to believe that he was something else.’
‘Well you can’t say I didn’t warn you.’
‘Yeah, yeah all right.’
‘Hey, I’m only saying.’
‘I know, I know.’ Anna turned to face her friend. ‘It’s just going to take me time to get over what he did and what happened. I know what he’s like, I see that now but we did have some good times and I was convinced – he convinced me – that he loved me. It will take me a while to get my head around the fact that he didn’t love me, or at least not enough.’
‘He did you wrong, Anna. He cheated on you.’
‘He did. He betrayed me.’
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I like the relationship between the two women. You can tell they care enough about each other to be honest but also compassionate. Nice job. What is a corker, btw? Is this a UK term? ;)
ReplyDeleteHi Alana thanks for your comments. A corker means something or someone great or excellent. So you can probably guess that my character's being sarcastic!
DeleteO funny, I would have guessed something a lot worse!
DeleteAnna and Melissa do seem to have a good relationship and it's interesting that despite Melissa seemingly telling Anna what 'an idiot' her boyfriend was whilst they were together Anna didn't see it herself - or did she and just didn't want to admit it until he did the dirty on her and cheated?
ReplyDeleteI liked: ‘I suppose I was refusing to admit what he was really like because I wanted to believe that he was something else.’ There's such truth in that - the grief when a bad relationship ends is more for 'what could have been'. Thanks for sharing - and good luck with getting the first draft down!
ReplyDeleteVery nice. As the others said, you can clearly see the relationship between the two women. I wondered what a 'corker' was as well. Yep, I was going worse than that. ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks guys for all the encouragement. It's so good to hear your thoughts - it spurs me on!
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