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synchronicities you get.
Cherry lived next door
with her mum and dad.
She said she was going
to be moving out only it
could take quite a while
to save up the deposit
for a flatshare. She said
she couldn’t wait to get
out actually. I knew the
feeling. She was a beauty,
Cherry, and I have to
confess I sometimes had
this fantasy about her and
me getting it together and
the two of us running off
somewhere. Most nights,
in fact. I’d be lying in bed
and ten to one I wouldn’t
be able to sleep and I’d
come over in a bit of a
sweat imagining Cherry
lying in the bed with me.
But it was not a good
fantasy because I felt bad
all the time I pictured her
there. I suffered because
she was too beautiful.
Her perfect oval face and
perfect oval eyes.
She was perfect in every
way imaginable. From
blue painted fingernails
without a scratch on the
surface, to curved lips,
deliciously red. With a
great body too. And as
for the down to earth,
whenever I sawherpassing
our house and we waved
to one another, I quivered
inwardly. I wouldn’t have
liked her to know that.
Not that I thought she was
a mean spirited person
in any way. Her soul was
most probably every bit
as perfect as all the rest of
her. That of course would
have been ultimately
daunting.
The truth was I admired
Cherry but I could hardly
speak to her, hardly even
look at her. She made
me intensely conscious