Chapter 5Adrian
When we leave the café, it’s dark outside. It’s raining heavily.
I try to explain to Nikos that it’s fine, but he insists on walking me to my door with his brolly, because I left mine somewhere.
It’s a perfect ending to a perfect evening.
“Will you get home alright?” I ask him.
He just nods. “I’ll get home, no problem. I don’t live too far away.”
No kidding. Nothing is really too far away from each other in Porthcawl.
And then we’re at my door. It’s raining so hard the noise is drowning out the sounds of the sea and seagulls. I’m not ready to let him go and shatter this fantasy, because that’s what it feels like. A beautiful fantasy of walking home with my perfect boyfriend after a long day at work and a dinner consisting of too many carbs and sugar.
“Well then,” Ni
