As she stepped on the beige raffia carpet heading towards the stairs,
just after a framed poster of Things You Learn in the Dark – one of their favourite Ryan Bailey movies
which they had watched together at the Odeon in Bedford – she noted a smaller picture on a sweet little window sill.
It was their wedding photo. Black and white, reportage-style. Walking out of a church into a shower of confetti.
It was difficult to see their faces properly but they were both laughing and it was a shared laugh,
and they seemed – as far as a photograph can tell you anything – to be in love.
She remembered her mum talking about Dan. (‘He’s a good one. You’re so lucky. Keep hold of him.’)
She saw her brother Joe too, shaven-headed and looking genuinely happy, champagne glass in hand
and his short-lived, disastrous investment-banker boyfriend, Lewis, by his side.
Izzy was there, and Ravi too, looking more like an accountant than a drummer, standing next to a bespectacled woman she’d never seen before.
While Dan was in the toilet Nora located the bedroom.
Although they evidently had money worries – the nervous appointment with the bank confirmed that –
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