Page 83 of Spiralling Skywards: Fading
“Really? I wonder why. He’s always been such a friendly kid.”
“Yeah, Luke reckons he’s just had his nose put out a bit and is finding his feet. I guilt tripped him big time in the car, hence the flowers.”
“Let’s hope it works. What smells good, did you bring food in?”
“No. While you were sleeping, I cooked the chops that were in the fridge along with some green beans and mash.
“Shit, I must’ve been out cold.”
“You were.” I let out a long breath and made sure she was looking at me when I continued. “You do know that there’s absolutely nothing, and I do mean nothing, going on with me and Cassie, don’t you?”
She let out an equally long breath.
“No. I don’t know, Liam. You spend more time with the people you work with than you do with us. How could I know for sure that nothing is going on?”
“Because I’m fucking telling you, that’s how. I’m pissed off that you would even think that of me.”
“How would you have felt if the tables were turned?”
“What?”
“If you’d turned up to my place of work, and I walked out of an office with one of my colleague’s arms draped over my shoulder like that, how would it have made you feel?”
Fuck
I let out another long breath and shook my head.
“I never thought of it like that. I’m sorry, but I swear to you that I would never.”
“It hurt.”
Fuck, I felt like a dick.
“I’m so fucking sorry. Luke told me what Mel said. I just added to your shitty day didn’t I?”
“Well, you didn’t make it any better.”
I kissed the side of her head.
“Iloveonly you. Iseeonly you. Iwantonly you. Thereisonly you.”
She didn’t respond.
“Please never forget that.”
She nodded, but I wasn’t entirely sure that I convinced her.
