“Not presently,” I said, “but I have my eye on someone. It’s only a matter of time.”
There was a crash from the sink as Raymond dropped the ladle onto the draining board with a clatter.
“Raymond!” his mum said. “Butterfingers!”
I’d been keeping track of the musician online, of course, but he’d been rather quiet, virtually speaking.
A couple of Instagram snaps of some meals he’d had, a few tweets, uninteresting Facebook updates about other people’s music.
I didn’t mind. It was merely a matter of biding my time.
If I knew one thing about romance, it was that the perfect moment for us to meet and fall in love would arrive when I least expected it,
and in the most charming set of circumstances. That said, if it didn’t happen soon, I’d need to take matters into my own hands.
“And what about your family?” she said. “Do they live close by? Any brothers or sisters?”
“No, unfortunately,” I said. “I would have loved to have had siblings to grow up with.”
I thought about this. “It’s actually one of the greatest sources of sadness in my life,” I heard myself say.
I had never uttered such a sentence before, and, indeed, hadn’t even fully formed the thought until this very moment.
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