CHAPTER 90
CHAPTER 90
I laughed and said, ‘Your boyfriend fancied me?’
Because she goes out with football players and male models from toothpaste adverts. When she’s not sleeping with directors.
She said yes, and that I didn’t notice because I was ‘too nice’.
Then she said we should go for a drink. Just us two.
‘It’ll be like old times,’ she said. ‘Before you had Katy and everything got messed up.’
I asked how she could move in with Nick. After ruining my wedding and Katy’s life.
She said she thought it was to do with hormones.
Helen has been very nice to her, apparently.
She said, ‘It just feels good to have a stable home.’ With seemingly no understanding that she’d wrecked mystable home.
After an hour of banging on about herself, I realised Sadie is a lost cause. Selfish to the core.
I actually felt a lot better for seeing her. Because now I know I haven’t lost a friend after all. Sadie was never my friend to begin with.
When she left, Brandi said, ‘You need to unwind. We’re hitting some clubs. I’ve got a silver Lycra dress that you can cram yourself into.’
I pointed out it was only 4pm.
Brandi said, ‘So? Mum will babysit.’
Monday August 24th
What is it with babies? It’s like they KNOW when you’ve stayed out late.
After weeks of perfect sleep, Katy woke up every two hours.
My poor little girl!
I gave her Calpol, milk, water … everything. But she wasn’t having it. Actually spat everything out.
Waaaaa! WAAAAAH!
It broke my heart seeing her crying. But at the same time I REALLY wanted to sleep.
Far too tired to write about me and Brandi’s night.
Sleep now.
Tuesday August 25th
Somehow Brandi and I ended up in the West End the other night. At this posh nightclub.
Brandi is a bad influence on me. Mums should NOT go clubbing on a Sunday night.
I swore I’d only stay until nine, but Brandi made the DJ put on ‘Independent Woman’ and we ended up dancing on the tables and shouting WOO!
Suddenly it was midnight.
I suppose I did need to let go, really. I’ve been carrying around a lot of stress.
We got talking to some posh girls who went to school with the Daltons.
They said ‘gorgeous’ Zachary is rumoured to have a ‘mystery’ girlfriend.
It was hysterical when they found out the ‘mystery’ girl was our sister.
They wanted to see photos of Laura, like she was a celebrity or something. And they all said she was ‘rather lovely’.
I asked if they knew Alex, and they all said how gorgeous he was too.
When the girls left, Brandi said, ‘You always fancied posh Alex, didn’t you? Shame you didn’t go for him instead of Nick.’
I told her I hardly had a choice. Alex runs a major hotel dynasty. I’m not heiress material.
Brandi said, ‘Well, he’s always staring at you.’
I said, ‘What, Alex Dalton? I don’t think so.’
But just for a moment, thinking about the lift home from the sports club and the running training and the champagne at afternoon tea, I thought … maybe.
Wednesday August 26th
Brandi is dating someone she met on Facebook called ‘Spider’.
She can only meet him at his house because he has an electronic curfew tag on his leg.
Dad asked why she couldn’t find a nice man like ‘Laura’s Zachary’.
Brandi said, ‘BLURG! Vomit city! Those two are soooo soppy. Ohyougo first Laura. No,youZachary.’
Mum said it would be lovely if Laura and Zach got married.
Brandi told her to ‘get real’. She said, ‘Zach knows Prince Harry and walks like he’s being held up by string. He’s very nice but he’s from posh land. There’s no way he’d marry Laura.’
Mum roared about Laura being drop-dead gorgeous and having a university degree.
She said, ‘They could get married.’
Brandi said, ‘If you believe in fairy tales.’
Thursday August 27th
Had the BEST idea today. String! I tied a piece of string to the stroller, and then sat on the sofa and pulled it back and forth.
Brilliant!
Got to watch all ofDownton Abbeywhile Katy slept. Why didn’t I think of this before?
Friday August 28th
Katy has got wise to the string. She cries and tries to eat it.
Bugger.