Shuffle
Karin was with a friend. They came over together, grabbed another chair, one each, for our table, and then they sat down. Karin looked pleased to see me. Her friend looked at me with irritation, though I could not believe that she had guessed what was going on.
I didn’t look pleased to see Karin but she leant forward and gave me a small kiss on the lips and said, “Hello,” then I gulped, “Hello,” back, a quiet monotone, and we sat in silence as I shifted in my seat.
I could see the glint in Rory’s eyes. I introduced them all, and then Stefan carried on with his conversation. It seemed to take an age for Zarah and Corinne to come back. Rory seemed to be in tears of laughter.
Once the women returned, they collected more chairs so that the table no longer seemed large enough to accommodate us all. I was wondering what was going to happen next. Corinne was looking over at Karin and her friend, as if wondering what the hell was going on.
March 1988
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