Rae had turned up at mine a jangling sack of nerves all twitching fingers and blabbering sentences of nonsense words . Eventually I gleaned that Chloe was having an end of term sleepover with all the girl mates she made after her return at Christmas. ‘They’re no Staceys but none of them have spoken to me and you know girls are girls and girls can be girls and people in college can be such dickh- arseholes’
Now, Rae lay streatched out beside me on my bed, sated like a cat on a sunny lawn. I watched as a contented sigh puffed out of her plush soft lip, her cheeks nicely flushed and all that black hair shone in the sunlight. The thin curtain danced in the soft breeze and a LP hummed gently in the background. My eyes travelled down her body to her popped open jeans and lowered zip. A smug grin passed my lips as I followed the curve of her hips, the dip of her waist back to her beautifully serene face. ‘You’re an eleven and I am a four’ ringed and reverberated through me like an alarm bell, loud and obtrusive.