“Years ago. When I was with Dan. I’d said no, well, because I was with Dan.”
“But what if I hadn’t been? What if I had broken up with Dan and gone on that coffee date
and had dared, on a Saturday, with all the shop watching, to say yes to a coffee?”
Because there must be a life in which I was single in that moment and where I said what I wanted to say.
Where I said, ““Yes, I would like to go for a coffee sometime, Ash, that would be lovely.””
“Where I picked Ash. I’d like to have a go at that life. Where would that have taken me?”
And in the dark she heard the familiar sound of the shelves beginning to move, slowly, with a creak,
then faster, smoother, until Mrs Elm spotted the book, the life, in question.
“Right there.”
A Pearl in the Shell
She opened her eyes from a shallow sleep and the first thing she noticed was that she was incredibly tired.
She could see a picture on the wall, in the dark. She could just about make out that the picture was a mildly abstract interpretation of a tree.
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