“How are you?” I said. He didn’t look well. He groaned. “I nearly texted you to cancel, to be honest,” he said.
“Had a bit of a late one last night.” “Did you and Laura go on a date?” I said.
He boggled at me. “How on earth did you know that?” he asked, sounding incredulous.
I remembered something I’d seen Billy do in the office, and tapped the side of my nose with my index finger knowingly.
He laughed. “I think you might have a bit of witch in you, Eleanor,” he said. I shrugged.
I even had a black cat now to prove it. “I bumped into Laura a while back, actually,” I explained.
“She told me you were seeing each other.” He took a big gulp of his pint.
“Right. Yeah, she’s been in touch a few times, asking if I wanted to meet up. We went to see a film last night, had a couple of drinks afterward.”
“That sounds nice,” I said. “Is she your girlfriend now, then?”
He signaled to the waiter to bring him another pint. “Laura’s a lovely girl,” he said, “but I don’t think I’m going to be seeing her again.”
A staff member brought Raymond’s beer and some menus, and I asked for a Dandelion and Burdock.
Weirdly, considering it was a smart bar in the city center, they didn’t have any, so I had to make do with a Dr. Pepper.
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