CHAPTER SEVEN
There was a knock at the door at 7.25pm. David was five minutes early.
‘Someone’s keen to make a good impression,’ Mae said to Martha whilst grinning from ear to ear.
Mae seemed heavily interested in this evening’s events whilst Martha was dreading it and wondering why on earth she agreed to it. She just wanted to get it over with and wished that Mae wouldn’t make such a big thing of it. She was making Martha feel like a child with her constant goading. Martha was a grown up, but suddenly it felt like Mae was the older, more mature one and everyone wanted silly little Martha to get a boyfriend. Martha hated how patronising and short-sighted Mae could be at times. She knew that Mae genuinely wanted her to be happy, but she was happy. She didn’t need a man to make her happy.
