The door was answered by my friend Shelley, a short, bouncy girl with blonde hair and a very pretty face. “Hi, Con,” she said. “Amber just got here too and Dmitri’s been here for half an hour, so it’s Celeste we’re waiting for.”
I followed her into the living room. Rebecca had put on a CD of some wailing female singer-songwriter and laid out a few bowls of crisps and some dip. Tall, slender Amber was standing talking to her in a rather superior way, while Dmitri was flicking through her CD collection. “Honestly, Becca, you need to get some better music. Get some Rilo Kiley or something down your sound-hole… ah, this is more like it.” He waved a “Fountains of Wayne” CD in the air. “Goodbye, Teary von Cutter, hello Stacey’s Mom.”
Now that Dmitri had been given control of the sound system things started to get going. Everyone perked up and Celeste arrived not much later, wearing a top that showed off her impressive breasts and a pair of tight denim shorts. Dmitri paid rather a lot of attention to her that evening, making Amber rather jealous. She was used to his frequent playful advances which she would usually rebuff with a smirk. Not tonight, however.
At about seven, Rebecca’s stepmother knocked on the door and told us she’d made some dinner. Rebecca looked rather embarrassed, but everyone else was very grateful – I in particular had had enough pizza that day. There was quite a spread, which Rebecca and her stepmum brought through – chipolatas, sausage rolls, Scotch eggs, pigs in a blanket – party food. We all sat in a circle on the floor and ate our fill. Dmitri loaded up his plate straight away, but I was a little more hesitant. Apart from Rebecca, the skinny one of the group, our friends were not little waifs – Celeste’s curves in particular did not reach their considerable size on water biscuits. Still, I felt embarrassed about pigging out in front of the girls. I...
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