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• Authors: Dolly Alderton
• Language: English
• Genre: Women’s Literary Fiction
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‘I’ll have the burger, please, with a gluten-free bun and mac and cheese on
the side.’ Lola registered my confusion. ‘What?’
‘Your order makes no sense.’
‘Why?’
‘Because there’s gluten in the macaroni.’
‘Yeah, but at least then I’m halving my gluten intake.’
‘But you’re either allergic to gluten or you’re not,’ I said. ‘It’s not like
fags, it’s not a bit of gluten is better for you than lots of gluten. Flour is just
an ingredient.’
‘You can opt for wheat-free pasta?’ the waitress suggested.
‘Blurgh, no thanks,’ Lola replied, tossing her menu on the table. I stared at
her, unsure of where to begin.

‘Burger with cheese, jalapeños and fries,’ I said. Lola’s phone rang.
‘Hang on,’ she said. ‘I left my cosmic shopping list at the library.’ She
picked up the phone. ‘Hello? … Yes, we spoke earlier … well, I definitely
left it there, so I’d appreciate it if you could look one more time … it’s just a
piece of A4 paper with a list of words on it like “twin daughters” and “my
own events company” … okay … appreciate it, thank you.’ She hung up.
‘Lola.’
‘What?’
‘Why can’t you just write another one?’
‘Because, my life coach and I did a whole ritual with that specific list and I
can’t afford another session to do it all over again. I know you might think
this stuff is silly, but it’s very easy to dismiss it when you’re all … loved up.’
Our drinks hadn’t yet arrived and she had already said the thing she’d been
wanting to say to me for weeks.

‘That’s got nothing to do with it, I thought you were loopy when we were
both single.’
‘That’s true,’ she said. ‘Thank you for coming to this thing with me
tonight. I know you hate singles events. And I know you’re not technically
single any more.’
‘Don’t be silly, I’ll always come to them with you.’
‘I got ghosted last week.’
‘What does that mean?’
‘It’s when a person just stops speaking to you instead of having a break-up
conversation.’

‘Why’s it called ghosting?’
‘Number of schools of thought,’ she said, with the command of an
academic. ‘Most commonly, it is thought to have come from the idea that you
are haunted by someone who vanishes, you don’t get any closure. Others
have said it derives from the three grey dots that appear then disappear when
someone is writing you an iMessage and then doesn’t send it. Because it
looks ghostly.’

‘I see. And which guy was this?’
‘Jared. Works in the charity sector.’
‘Oh no!’ I said. ‘He seemed great.’
‘Yeah, well, they always do.’
I wished, more than anything, that I could buy a Durex for her heart.
‘Didn’t he say he wanted you to meet his parents or something?’
‘Yep,’ she nodded. ‘The last time I saw him he said: “If you fancy a
weekend away from London, I’d love for you to come meet my parents.”

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