on this one day to be part of a couple, however (in some cases), dysfunctional behind closed doors.
Only one girl holds back, the newest girl in the office. A girl whose boyfriend dumped her just a week earlier. A week before Valentine’s Day. Harsh, that, in my opinion. Inconsiderate, for sure. Tight-fisted, perhaps? Either way, we’ve all told her repeatedly that he’s a heartless tool who doesn’t deserve her and that she could do far, far better than an idiot who opted out before the padded cards and cuddly toy moment. None of us really know if the new girl can do better or not; we barely know her, but one has to say something, right? Anything to make someone who is going through a tough time not feel like utter pants.
‘Bye, Sarah,’ I say as I scoop up my bag and coat.
‘Where are you off to?’ she asks bleakly. Her eyes are almost as red as the straps on Tara’s silky teddy. ‘Somewhere nice?’
‘Not really,’ I say in a brisk tone. I probably could be truthful. I wasn’t off to somewhere ‘nice’, as such. I was off to somewhere I couldn’t stay away from, not on this day, at any rate. But I think Sarah has enough to deal with without me dumping my emotional woes on her.
‘He’s a heartless tool,’ I remind Sarah gently as I leave the office.
‘I know he is,’ she says, bursting into tears. ‘I just wanted a bloody teddy bear.’
I nod sympathetically. Those bloody teddy bears. They have a hell of a lot to answer for.
I make my way from my office to Piccadilly Circus. It’s not far; I work ten minutes or so from Leicester Square, which means it’s hard for me to avoid it the rest of the time. There have been days where I have literally walked around it causing me to be most inefficient with my time, just to make sure I don’t accidentally happen upon it. I am aware that this is a ridiculous state of affairs. It is the very reason I tend to keep it to myself. Who would understand a deliberate avoidance of a London monument just around the corner from my work for three hundred and sixty four days of the year?
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