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    â€˜Look, this was just the last place I wanted to be tonight. Like you said, everyone’s either married, getting married or under the age of ten. I’ve just been feeling out of place.’
    Good save, plausible, believable, and he’d felt exactly the same way. No way he could doubt that explanation. God he looks so cute. He’s good looking, intelligent, appears to have a sense of humour and, well, he just seems like a nice guy. ‘I better get back inside before Katerina starts wondering where I am.’
    But I don’t want to go. I want to stay right here, with my butt freezing on the cement. Somehow I manage to get to my feet. ‘I think it’s time for coffee and cakes and stuff. She’ll um, she’ll … ’ Why am I stuttering and stammering and can’t put a sentence together? ‘Kati will need a hand.’
    â€˜Desi?’ I turn back and face him, and nod at him. I don’t know what to say so a nod just gives him the okay to go ahead and ask whatever it is he wants to ask.
    â€˜Can I call you? You know, maybe we could get together for a coffee or drink one night this week?’ He wants to take me out? Oh, God. I hope Katerina hasn’t put him up to this and he’s only doing this to keep her happy and off his case.
    â€˜That would be nice.’ I can hear myself yet I have no control over the pathetic answers that I’m giving. Thank you very much brain. The one time that I actually need you, you decide to abandon me. Thanks a bloody lot.
    He pulls his mobile out of his pocket. What on earth is he doing that for? What’s he going to do, call inside and announce he picked me up and got my number? The nerve of him.
    â€˜Your number? Haven’t got pen and paper.’
    Okay, I admit it, I’m paranoid. I give him my number and, would you believe it, he gives me his card. No way am I calling first.
    â€˜I better get inside.’ I walk towards the house. I can’t look back at him, because if I do, I will have absolutely no control over what I would do. And believe me it would be very unlady like.

    What a night. I’m so tired I don’t think I have the energy to drive home. Everyone’s gone and Katerina and I are cleaning up the last of the mess in the kitchen. Chris winked at me as he left the house. I’m sure Katerina saw that and I know that she is now ready for an explanation. She will not let me leave without one. I look at my watch; it’s past two in the morning. For someone who is near seven months pregnant she sure has a hell of a lot of energy. That’s just not natural.
    â€˜So why did Chris wink at you?’ Sneaky bitch, she saw it all and waited till everyone was gone to corner me.
    â€˜Mind your own business.’ As if that will ever happen.
    â€˜You are my business. Was he outside with you when you both disappeared for ages?’ I knew that wouldn’t have escaped her attention.
    â€˜Maybe.’
    â€˜Oh my God, you two hit it off, didn’t you? I knew you would! Even with you dressed like a slob!’
    If she doesn’t stop jumping around like that she is going to bring on premature labour and I do not have the energy right now to help her through childbirth.
    â€˜Kati, calm down before you start having contractions. Look, Chris and I talked. That’s it.’
    But my curiosity is killing me. I have to ask. I have to. ‘Has he really been hassling you about me since the christening?’
    â€˜Hassling me? If you want to call it that. The guy hasn’t shut up about you. He cracked the shits because I wouldn’t give him your number.’
    I stare blankly at her.
    â€˜I know what you’re like about your number. If someone’s meant to have it, you’ll give it to them. Or give me permission to give it out. Right?’
    She knows me so well. She knows I would have killed her if she gave out my number without my