Another taster: Late Night Phone Calls

Sometimes, when I've had a wine in the evening, I call my best friend Janet. 

"Hello" she'll say, "what have you been up to?"

And I tell her I'm bored at work, about my first holiday with Tom and the boots I'm saving up for.

Then I ask, " How's your week treating you Jan?" And she tells me funny stories about her bad date with a co-worker and the latest thing her mother has done. 

We make plans to have dinner at mine and then go dancing on Friday. Just as we're about to hang up, I remember to tell her about how I ran into Suzanne. Janet makes a wicked comment and I laugh so hard I almost choke.

We end by saying, "I love you" to each other.

It's a game we play, where I pretend we're still 23, and she pretends she isn't dead.