Chapters (56)
Any time. Drew says you have an objective for your evening with Dr Jones. As well as finding out about your mum, you have to find out if the fiancée is male or female. He says I’ve assumed female. He never talks about her and I don’t know her name so Drew’s still convinced the lovely Dr Jones is gay and would ditch his partner if he got to know Drew a bit better. He loves the idea of dating Indiana Jones! My cousin is a tart! Xx
✉︎ To Tiff
I’ll see what I can do but, after questioning Mum tonight and crashing and burning with it, I think sleuthing is NOT my area of expertise
✉︎ From Tiff
Hang on in there. I’m at the end of the phone if you want to talk about it before you’re back xx
18
Sam
I rubbed my sweaty palms down my jeans yet again. Why the hell was I nervous? It wasn’t a date. It was some advice and guidance for a friend of a friend. Day job stuff. Easy.
My phone buzzed in my pocket.
✉︎ From Unknown
Hi. It’s Jemma! Hope you don’t mind but Tiff gave me your number. I got held up at work and I’m going to be about 10 mins late. Don’t want you to think I’m a no-show when you’re doing me a huge favour! Don’t know if Tiff told you what I look like but I’ve got long, dark hair and I’m wearing a burgundy dress and black boots. What do you look like? Tiff unhelpfully told me you’ll be wearing a fedora, carrying a whip and hiding from snakes! Will be there asap. Thank you
✉︎ To Jemma
Ha ha ha! Tiff is hilarious. Not! Sadly, I look nothing like Harrison Ford or his alter ego. I’m blond and wearing a grey T-shirt and jeans. I’m only a few minutes away so will grab a table. See you later
I put my phone away and breathed out slowly, wondering why I was so nervous. It was the blind date thing, wasn’t it? Although it wasn’t actually a date with Jemma, I was about to meet a stranger who I knew very little about which echoed of that first meeting with Nikki. Little had I known back then that a blind date that I’d tried so hard to wriggle out of would change my life forever. At least this Jemma person wasn’t going to have that sort of impact on me although, if she was as much fun as Tiff, maybe I’d have another friend in London and could gradually start building up a new life. Without Nikki in it.