Sublime

It’s at this point Zoe announces her travel plans and Kat’s lies are juxtaposed with Zoe’s honesty. In order for her to stop Zoe travelling, she must borrow and assimilate her antagonist’s qualities – she must assimilate Zoe’s honesty and tell her the truth.

The relationship, without him noticing, had been the longest one he had ever had. He had seen no reason to end it. He had never tired of coming home to their place and finding her naked, playing some new instrument. Why end something that worked over the vague notion that he could love someone more deeply than he loved Zoe, who was by every measure

She was Melissa’s oldest, boldest friend. They had gone to the same primary school. Hazel worked in advertising. She had a wide and glamorous smile behind which was an oft-foul tongue, and long, bouncing, half-French, half-Ghanaian curls falling down her back, the most beautiful, the most envied of their schoolgirl pack, the one the boys always wen