You, Me and Him (27 page)

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE

‘Hello, dear, Mrs Bourbon here. You’ve been gone ages and ages. Where’ve you been?’

‘I took your mother away for the weekend,’ Finn says. ‘How was Mrs B?’

‘She took me to the car-boot. I bought a pog set.’

‘I’m not even going to ask what that is.’

‘What have you been
doing
all this time?’

‘Having fun with your mother. I need to spoil her more.’ I smile widely. I’ve just put Scarlett to bed and am about to join them but decide it’s more fun listening outside the door.

‘What did you eat?’ George asks.

‘Pepperoni and cheese pizza. We went dancing.’

‘Where?’

‘In Cambridge.’

‘Why?’

‘Because that’s where we first met. That’s where we fell in love. We went to my old club.’

‘Can I go?’

‘I’ll take you when you’re old enough.’

‘What’s that in your hand, Dad?’

‘A matchbox.’

‘Why?’

He pushes it open. ‘I love you,’ I had written inside, just as Finn had done after we spent our first night together.

‘I love you,’ reads out George.

‘That’s right. I love you, Mrs Bourbon. Now, go to sleep. It’s late. I didn’t expect you still to be awake.’

‘But no one’s turned my brain off.’

Finn presses the imaginary button.

‘’Night, Mrs Jammie D.’

‘’Night, Mrs Bourbon.’

THE END