Chapter 29

• 'Then, when we were about 22, they finally got together. It was serious; he proposed while hammered, then returned the next weekend and proposed properly. With a ring, of course. 'She said no and broke up with him,' Sophie and I exclaim, 'and he ploughed his studies and came down to work in the City instead - I think just to be closer to her...' She then continued to drag him along. She had turned to him for years whenever she had a breakup. He moved to Boston to study and get away from her, but he still flew back whenever she asked.'
• 'Bitch,' Sophie and I both say at the same time.
• 'I know,' Luke says. Despite pretending to despise gossip, Luke is an expert at it. 'When he was 26, they started seeing each other again, and after six months, he proposed. Again.'