Page 144 of The Wedding Forecast

‘I’m just asking so I know to be discreet the next time I see him.’

‘There is no next time you see him.’

‘So you broke up.’

‘Yes.’

‘Well. That’s that then, isn’t it.’ She sounds disappointed.

‘You barely knew him. I’m not sure why you’re upset,’ I say.

‘I’m not upset. I just thought he was good for you, that’s all.’

Mac looks like he wants to die.

‘Well, I guess you just need to trust me that I know what’s good for me.’

‘I better call your father and tell him.’

‘Why!’

‘Patrick was going to help him with that new camera he got last year and hasn’t used once.’

‘Mum! When did you ask him to do that?’ I say.

‘Last night, at the launch.’

I sit at the table and lean my head into my hands.

‘I know a little about cameras, I could help, maybe,’ Mac says, and this makes me laugh. Once I start, I can’t stop, and I can hear Hayley getting the giggles across the table.

‘And I better email Sue,’ Bobbi says.

‘Psychic Sue?’ I say.

‘Yes, we should update her.’

‘That’s what I said,’ Hayley says.

‘Please don’t,’ I say, my head still in my hands.

‘I have to sweetheart, I sent her an email to say you and Patrick got together in the end and wasn’t that lovely, and she asked if she could use a quote from my email on her website.’

‘Oh my god, Bobbi,’ I say, sitting up now and looking at her in horror.

‘I got carried away,’ she says, holding up her hands. ‘I know that.’

Hayley is checking Psychic Sue’s website. ‘She’s already put up the quote.’

Hayley turns her phone to me. There’s a quote in the testimonials section that says: Sue told my goddaughter she would meet a man named Patrick in six months time and she did!! And now, eighteen months later, they are happily together!!!

‘Mum, the exclamation marks are so excessive,’ Hayley says.

‘She must have added those,’ Bobbi says. ‘I never use more than one.’

‘Okay, we need that taken down ASAP,’ I say, pushing Hayley’s phone back to her before Mac can see anything, but it’s too late, I can see him absorbing it all.

‘I’m just going to have a shower,’ he says to me quietly.