Chapter 12
?? From Nick
How’s the search going for the elusive Steven? Had a great time with you on Wednesday. Hope we can do it again soon. Still available to do your website… if you really want one! Met a Steve today I would tie myself into knots waiting for him to appear, jumping every time I heard someone say the name ‘Steven’.
Would I tie myself in knots any less if I registered with an online dating site?
What if I messaged half a dozen Stevens and none of them responded?
Would making contact and having it ignored be worse than just not knowing when the Steven would walk into my life?
Argh!!! My head hurt just thinking about it.
I clicked onto my emails instead. There was one from Andy with the intriguing subject line of, ‘Have I Got BIG News For You’. My stomach did a flip. Even after all these years of just being friends, I still had a physical reaction each time I heard from him.
Andy Kerr had lived in the same halls of residence as Clare and me in our first year.
We were friends at first but I found myself increasingly attracted to him as the first term progressed.
I had no idea whether he felt the same until he steered me towards a bunch of mistletoe dangling from the ceiling at the Christmas Ball.
We were inseparable for the last week of term but I was worried a month apart over the Christmas holidays would be too much.
He’d returned home to Bournemouth and we’d both lined up part-time jobs so meeting up over the break wasn’t an option.
Fortunately, it turned out that absence really did make the heart grow fonder and, as soon as we got back in January, we officially became a couple, very much in love.
I hesitated before I opened Andy’s email message. What if the news was that he’d finally proposed to Kelly after a two-year on-off relationship or he was going to be a daddy? My hand shook slightly as I clicked on the message.
Hi Sarah