18 July 2012
-NATE-
"Hey mate" I said to Charlie as I saw him sat on his bed. "Aright?" "Yeah, just said goodbye to Tiffany. Are we going out later?" I said, hoping that as my best man he'd arranged something. "Yeah, I need to find a date" "What do you mean?" I said, sitting on my bed. "I can't go to the wedding and see Mollie and not have a date?!" "Oh I see. Still hung up over her?" "Yeah. You don't know if she's got a date do you?" "I don't think she has, but I can ask Tiffany to find out?" "No, it's okay. If she hasn't publicised it then she probably hasn't. You know Mollie!" "Yeah I do. Shall we go to the city today before this evening?" "I've got classes, I don't get special treatment like you do" he said, smirking at me. "I'm going to ask if you can have today off too" I said to him, getting up and opening our door. "Now?" "Well if we leave for New York now then we'll have a decent length of time there" "Okay then. Let's go!" he said, grabbing his wallet. "Wait! Shirt!" I said, forgetting that I was half naked. This made Charlie laugh, and after throwing on a white shirt, we left to get permission from Mrs Henderson.
-TIFFANY- "Right, how do you want your nails doing?" Mollie asked, taking a sip from her lemonade and opening her drawer of nail varnishes. "Do you have anything really natural?" I asked, as Mollie pointed to the far corner of her drawer. "What do you think?" "I'd say this one" she said, pulling out an Essie shade that looked like mother of pearl. "Perfect!" I said, admiring it. "'Imported Bubbly'? Nice name!" "Oh that reminds me, don't tell anyone but I've got this for us" she said, pulling out two bottles of champagne. "From my dad's cellar, so it's good stuff. Shouldn't leave you hungover" "Thanks, but am I allowed after the miscarriage?" "I googled it, and you are. We don't have to but it is your last night of freedom..." "Oh go on then!" I said, handing Mollie my empty lemonade glass. When Mollie had just finished painting one of my hands, there was a knock on the door. "We're a little busy, sorry!" Mollie answered, continuing with her precise and accurate painting. "It's me Tiffany, darling" my mother said, opening the door. "Sorry! Mollie said, jumping up and pulling the door fully open. "Oh wow. This place hasn't changed one bit!" my mother said, admiring the room. "Is this your bed darling?" "Yeah, and that's Mollie's" I said, nodding towards Mollie's bed. "I slept in the same space as you, but my bed wasn't nearly that big!" she said, sitting down on it. "Champagne?" Mollie offered my mother. "Oh yes please" she said. "I'll go and get another glass, you two have a good chat whilst your nails dry" "Thanks" I said, turning to face my mother. "That's a gorgeous colour!" she said, admiring my nails. "Thank you, Mollie was always good with nails!" "Indeed! It really is strange being back in here. I hope you don't mind me coming? I just wanted to wish you luck. Obviously I'll come and see you tomorrow, I just wanted to see you. Where are you staying tonight?" "I'm not sure really, Nate's staying at our house, so probably here" "Why don't you come home? I'd love to have you, and I don't feel like we've properly had an opportunity to talk about what happened, you know..." "Yeah. Okay, that'd be great. Can Mollie take the guest room?" "Sure she can" my mother said, smiling at me. "I'm back!" Mollie said, bounding into the room with a champagne flute. She poured my mother a glass of the rich golden liquid, and handed it to her. "We're staying at my mother's tonight, is that okay?" "That's great! Thank you" Mollie said to my mother, kissing her on the cheek. "Now, have you got everything ready?" my mother said, pulling out a list of things I need. "Dress?" "Being delivered tomorrow morning from Vera Wang" I said "Shoes?" "Here" I said, pointing to them. "Jewellery?" "Haven't decided yet, but I'll bring most of it and we can decide tomorrow" "Makeup?" "Here" Mollie said, holding up a DKNY makeup bag full to the brim of brand new makeup. "Hair?" "I'm doing it" Mollie said, "And Mimi's coming in to help out with mine and yours" "Thank you!" my mother said smiling. "Well I've taken care of the rest, so all we need to hope now is that Nathaniel's got his things ready. Do you think I should check?" "He's gone into the city, but don't worry. I trust him to have it all ready!" I said, my mind suddenly drifting back to Nate. "What are you wearing by the way? I didn't know you were back on the swim team?" "I'm not. I'm training with Nate though. This is his captain's sweater" "Why are you wearing it?" she said, smiling a little. "It reminds me of him" "I have a bottle of your father's cologne that I spray around every once in a while too, just to remind me of him." I'd never seen my mother really open up about how much she missed my father before, so this was alien to me. This made me sympathise with my mother completely: I was going out of myers and I'd only been apart from Nate for an hour, whereas she had to deal with my father being away for months at a time. "It looks good on you" "Thank you. I might have to take it then! On the subject of father, do you know what time he's arriving?" "Oh gosh. Did I not tell you already? I'm sorry. Sweetheart, your father isn't coming"
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