Page 82 of Pillow Talk
He followed. ‘You don’t get to walk away without an explanation,’ he said.
She stopped and turned around. ‘I can do whatever I want. We have no obligation to each other. Just a no-strings-attached arrangement.’
He nodded.
‘Are you sure this is how you want to play it?’ he asked.
She took a step closer to him and looked up into his eyes. ‘Who’s playing?’
Before Sen could reply, Anni appeared.
‘Are you two okay?’
Shona turned to her and put on a fake smile. ‘Perfectly fine,’ she replied and walked off.
Shona went to the bar. She knew Anni was following.
Her friend took the stool next to her, paused for a moment and then said, ‘When we were growing up, I also thought Sen had feelings for you.’
‘And then when we turned 15, we discovered he didn’t,’ Shona replied bitterly.
‘Let me ask you this: when you started sleeping with Sen, did you really think you were not going to fall in love with him?’
Shona froze.
‘I figured it out a while back. I didn’t want to say anything because I thought you two would see what’s right in front of you. I was wrong,’ Anni said.
Shona turned to Anni.
‘I saw him kissing some woman outside a restaurant when I went to Durban to look at rental spaces,’ she said.
Anni shut her eyes for a few seconds.
‘Sho, you’re my closest and dearest friend. I love you. You’ve been my family most of my life, so it pains me to say this: you are an idiot.’
Shona jerked her head back. ‘I wasn’t expecting that.’
‘Did you speak to Sen about what you saw?’
Shona didn’t reply.
‘I knew it,’ said Anni.
Shona didn’t say anything.
‘You’re now going to march yourself to that table he is sitting at, sit your butt down and tell him,’ Anni ordered.
‘But …’
Anni narrowed her eyes.
‘Fine.’
Shona got off the stool, approached Sen and sat on the chair opposite him.
‘Anni knows we were sleeping together,’ she said.
He didn’t reply.
