She bolted out into the street the sunlight wrapped itself around her in a stifling embrace. She heard him stumbling for his jeans, his keys, calling after her. Her heart was screaming at her to go back. She clattered out of the flat, pausing at the foot of the communal staircase to pull on her vest and shorts. ‘I think I’m falling for you.’įreddie swept the last of her things into her bag and ran. August was gradually turning the heat up on London. She felt her body give under his touch, as one hand ran over her shoulder, circled her nipple. His arms wrapped round her as he kissed along her naked shoulder, her neck. ‘Then why don’t you stay?’ He was up now, moving toward her. Pulled it open, started scooping her stuff into her bag. ‘Course I like you.’ She dived at the drawer. ‘You don’t like me then?’ He let his hand fall back against the blue duvet. ‘Don’t you like staying here?’ He reached to brush back the frizzy curtain of hair that had fallen over her face. ‘You gave me a drawer?’ No one has ever made space for you before, Freddie. ‘I gave you a drawer.’ He pointed at the Ikea set under the telly and Xbox. ‘Thanks a fucking lot, Freddie!’ His cheeks burned red.Īnger she could deal with. ‘You’ve had perks too.’ He was thinking with his dick. ‘You’ve been fucking me because it’s convenient?’ ‘This has just been temporary, while I find new digs.’ ‘You know I’ve been sofa-surfing for months.’ She grabbed yesterday’s knickers from the floor, turned them inside out. ‘What have the last few months been then? You’ve stayed the last twelve nights and you’re saying this is just – what? A fling?’ His eyes were wide. ‘No?’ He sat up, the duvet falling off his naked body.
Each time her dad smashed the frame during a drunken rage, her mum just replaced it without mentioning it.
‘This – us, like it’s fun and stuff, but no.’ She thought of her parents’ wedding photo: her mum twenty-four years old in her lacy white dress.
‘I think you’ve got the wrong idea.’ Freddie swung her legs over the side of the bed. Was he crazy? She had her whole life ahead of her.
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