That Festive Feeling by Heidi Swain EPUB & PDF

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• Author:Heidi Swain
• Language: English
• Genre: Friendship Fiction
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I was sitting cross-legged on the oor in front of the sofa, surrounded by a
plethora of packing boxes when my mobile rang out, making me jump and
pulling me out of the reverie I hadn’t realised I’d fallen into.
‘Dad,’ I answered, my tone an octave higher than I would have liked and
denitely far too bright. ‘Hey. Is everything okay?’
It said a lot about our relationship that I had assumed there must be
something wrong for him to be calling just a few days after our last interaction.
And yes, I know interaction might seem an odd choice of word to describe a
conversation with my parents, but no one who knew them would think that. My
parents and I didn’t go in for idle chit-chat. I doubt they would even know what
the word meant.

‘Yes,’ Dad briskly said. ‘Everything’s ne.’
He didn’t say anything further and I checked my phone to make sure the call
hadn’t been cut o.
‘So,’ I prompted, dragging the word out. ‘You’re ringing because…’
‘Your mother asked me to,’ he eventually said. ‘She would have rung herself
but she’s been called in to attend an unscheduled departmental meeting.’
‘I bet she was thrilled about that,’ I commented, knowing how much she
abhorred anything unplanned.

Both my parents were university lecturers. Mum was physics and Dad was
maths. Their entire lives, their very essence, was ground in logic and fact and
they didn’t allow an iota of space for imagination or adventure. I supposed that
was why they had always found me, their only child, such a conundrum. I was
almost thirty now and they still hadn’t worked out the formula which would
explain how between them they’d managed to create someone… well, creative.

‘Far from it,’ said Dad, stating the obvious. ‘I’m not disturbing your work,
am I?’
That was something else they didn’t understand. My work. I had ditched
their preferred university course, the one they had goaded me into applying for
and gone to art college instead. After graduating, I had then embarked upon
what they saw as a precarious and insecure career path as a children’s book
illustrator. Thank goodness I’d met and started dating Piers before leaving uni.
Marrying him had made me less of a disappointment in their eyes, only now I
didn’t have Piers… or a marriage…

‘No, no,’ I quickly said, before my mind took a darker turn. ‘I’m packing
today, not working.’
Dad didn’t miss a beat.
‘You are putting everything into storage, Holly, aren’t you?’ he asked,
sounding panicked. ‘Because we really haven’t got room for you and all of
your…’

‘Yes, Dad,’ I cut in, thinking of the empty rooms in my childhood home and
trying not to feel too aronted that there was no space in any of them for my few
worldly goods. ‘It’ll just be me, a suitcase and a couple of bags and for the
shortest time possible. You won’t even know I’m there.’
‘Right,’ he said, sounding mollied as he let out a breath. ‘That’s great.
Good.’

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