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saddo.’
    Marcus arched a perfectly shaped eyebrow in her direction. ‘I suppose you’re waiting for me to give you a lecture so you can justify yourself, but actually I think it’s the best thing you’ve ever done.’
    â€˜I don’t know what happened to me,’ Carmen babbled. She was surfacing from her dive into the deep end and panic had taken hold. ‘I mean, I’ve only got that ten grand I was left by Nana Lesley. I don’t know what I’m going to do next. Nick is having a baby, so that means I’ll probably have to sell the flat. My pension is probably worth all of fifty pence. I’ll have to work at Asda forever when I’m old, and yes, I know they sell lots of organic products, but it’s not Waitrose, is it? And they’ll probably have to bury me in that black and fluorescent green fleece because that’s the only item of clothing I’ll own. And I still haven’t paid for that Alexander McQueen biker jacket that you made me buy because you said it was an investment piece. Gok Wan wouldn’t have made me buy it. He would have sourced something for me from the high street but, oh no, I had to be friends with a high-end-designer fashionista gay. And I bet you’ll drop me now I can’t go out to all those expensive restaurants, or buy designer clothes.And I’m such a fucking cliché having a gay best friend and being single. And last night Will kissed me but today he seems to barely want to know me. And did I tell you that Nick’s having a baby?’
    Tara handed Carmen a large handful of tissues. For a second Carmen couldn’t think why, and then she realised that she was crying, huge, fat tears spurting out of her eyes and cascading down her cheeks.
    â€˜I’m going to get a different foundation, I’ll be back in a bit,’ Tara said diplomatically, heading for the door.
    â€˜Oh God, I must sound deranged if I’ve made Tara leave the room. I thought she’d heard it all.’
    Marcus came and sat next to Carmen on the sofa and put his arm round her. Now his tone was serious, sympathetic. ‘Stop making light of what’s happened. The Nick news is big, you’re bound to be reeling. I’m so sorry, Carmen.’ He paused to allow Carmen to mop up the tears and blow her nose. ‘You must have known it would happen sometime, though?’
    â€˜Sometime,’ Carmen sniffed. ‘Not so soon. I thought I would be more sorted in my head, in a place where I could accept it. It makes me feel like such a failure.’
    â€˜Don’t be silly, you’re’, – ‘Marcus switched to his American accent – ‘intelligent, talented and gifted.’
    â€˜Just don’t say “go girlfriend”,’ Carmen replied, managing the smallest of smiles in spite of the situation.
    â€˜Well, it was you who said you wished you’d been friends with Gok. Seriously, Carmen, leaving Fox Nicholson is just the best thing you’ve done in ages. You were ossifying there in that horrid little glass cage,and you know it. Give yourself six months and go off and write that drama – you’ll regret it forever if you don’t. As for Will, he probably felt awkward because of work, but by the sounds of things he likes you.’ Marcus paused. ‘As for the baby thing, what can I say? It’s not fair, it’s wretched and cruel and I wish more than anything that it wasn’t so.’
    â€˜I know,’ Carmen said in a small voice. ‘There is nothing more to say.’
    Marcus gave her another hug. ‘You can always talk to me, even if we have the same conversation over and over and over, you know that.’ He checked his watch and frowned. ‘Except now. I’m sorry, the show starts recording in ten minutes, I’m going to have to get on. Is Sadie around? I don’t want to think of you on your own.’
    â€˜Actually, I think I just want