Sunday, 24/08
11:40
Rachel Finely was in a great mood. Sighing delightfully, she swirled around in her chair, looking up at the ceiling of the pharmacy.
It was tonight.
The date she’d been waiting a whole month for! She sat up with an excited squeak and pressed her hands to her smiling mouth, her blonde curls bouncing about as she did so.
God, he’d taken an awful long time to ask her. Rachel leaned her chin onto her palm and thought of him. Theirs was a romance like that of a novel. Every Saturday she’d gone to the library because Rachel was a firm believer in the necessary pleasure of reading, but very soon she’d started going to see the quiet, dark-haired man who sat by his lonesome at the same table each time.
It had been her own little secret until one Saturday, he’d raised th
