Chapter 2
Tonight was Nina’s first school reunion and she didn’t know quite what to expect. A night of masquerade, mystery and romance — that’s how the ball had been promoted. In the town hall foyer she donned her peacock mask of feathers and rhinestones, while Kate struggled to fasten her own scarlet macaw headdress.
‘Here,’ said Nina. ‘Let me.’ She looped the elastic tight behind her friend’s ears, and examined their images in the tall gilt mirror by the door. Katie had outdone herself. All those painstaking hours spent with coloured feathers, a bedazzler and a glue gun had well and truly paid off. Such lovely masks. How could a flimsy disguise make so much difference? They were both transformed, unrecognisable.
The electric blue gown that had seemed grand and overblown at Kate’s hous
