Peggy nodded. Heidi was dancing and every now and then turning and waving them over. They put their cups down and walked onto the dancefloor. The lights illuminated everything and then passed into darkness. A spray of white ran over all of them like stars. The music was loud. It was a great night.

Peggy and Greta leaned close to Heidi and shouted, ‘Sorry,’ and Heidi said, ‘What?’ and they shouted it again, louder.

‘Oh,’ Heidi said. ‘Oh. No.’ She stepped back from them, they were all still dancing, and shook her head and waved her hand and mouthed, ‘It’s no big deal,’ and smiled the widest smile as she swung her head from side to side, letting her long hair whip across her face. Hiding it, then revealing it, so it looked like she was there then gone, then there again.

Later in the night, much later, Heidi found them. She was holding her phone out to them and waving for them to follow her. The three of them stood on the street and Heidi put her phone to speaker.

‘Dell,’ she said.

‘Yeah,’ Dell said. It was Dell, they could tell by the way Heidi looked when Dell spoke – like they used to, like it was twelve years ago, and they were in the flat and Dell was speaking to them from another room.

‘Dell,’ said Heidi. ‘Peggy and Greta are here.’

‘Oh,’ Dell said. ‘Hi.’

‘Hi,’ said Peggy and Greta. They were overjoyed. They had been dancing for hours and that made them happy and now, here they were, all together again on the street under a bright moon.

‘How are you?’ Peggy asked.

‘Good,’ Dell said. ‘Good.’

Heidi saw someone she knew, handed the phone to Peggy and Greta, and walked away.

‘How are you?’ Dell asked.

‘Good,’ said Peggy. ‘We’re really good. It’s so good to hear you.’

There was silence for a moment, just Peggy and Greta laughing – overjoyed.

‘Cool,’ Dell said.

‘Cool,’ they said.

‘Is Heidi gone?’ Dell asked.

Peggy and Greta looked. Heidi was well out of earshot, talking animatedly with a group of women. ‘Yeah,’ they said. ‘She’s talking to someone else.’

‘Oh, cool,’ Dell said. ‘Cool. Quite a party, eh?’

‘Yeah,’ Greta and Peggy said together.

‘Yeah,’ said Dell. ‘So, um, yeah, I don’t know if Heidi’s told you but I’m kind of doing something quite important.’

‘Oh?’ they said.