He hadn’t got another girlfriend. He
didn’t fancy somebody else. He wasn’t fed up of Amanda either. It needed a day
off. And he hadn’t wanted to tell her that because she would probably have
taken it the wrong way.
Girls did that,
girls. They thought that because you didn’t want to be with them 24/7 you’d
lost interest. That was stupid. Even married people weren’t together all the
time. They went to work didn’t’ they? They went to the shops. And they still met
their other friends, didn’t they?
Oh lordy, what
was he thinking about -married people? Hey, even Amanda didn’t go that far.
She was getting
clingy, though.
“See, you
tomorrow then,” he’d said.
“Hey, aren’t we
going to hang out after school?” she said.
Then he’d just
come out with. “I’ve got to go and see my Grandma. She’s sick.”
