Tuesday, 10 September 2024

The Islands in the Bay – Chapter (114) Loves Young Dream

 


On Monday the residents from the twelve Church Lane cottages were vacating in readiness for the woodworm treatment.

Only two of the tenants were fragile enough to require medical supervision, Dr Stuart Cameron was on hand to assist one of them and Nurse Victoria Pullen the other.

 

It was also the day that Molly and Danny left the island for an extended holiday/research trip for the latest Sharon Jacques book visiting among other places, Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Bucharest, and Bratislava. 

They were going to be away for at least ten days but had allowed for three weeks if they felt they needed it.

 

It wasn’t until three days after he visited Gilbert’s when Caroline and Austin met up for that coffee, although it wasn’t quite what she had in mind, it was from a mobile fast-food van down by the docks, but it wasn’t really about the coffee, although it was surprisingly good, and that was the first of many meetings.

 

Matt Deighton first went to the Galleon Coffee Shop after first moving to the island and he became a regular customer over the coming weeks, but conversation didn’t come easy for him, he was a quiet shy man.

But it was the only real human contact he had outside of work that he had in the two months he’d been in Spaniards Creek, and he was feeling really homesick.

But after seeing Jade in the Galleon it had become the only oasis in his desert of unhappiness and he looked forward to his daily visits and he arrived earlier and stayed longer.

 

It was almost the end of July before he finally worked up the courage to ask Jade out and when he did, he rather spat the words out at her.

He’d tried to do it twice already that week and bottled out both times and then he walked up and down outside the shop for half an hour before he went back in again on Wednesday.

“Hi” she said, “Back again?”

“Yes” he replied

“Two Americano’s and a Capuchino?” she asked

“No” he barked

“Ok, so what do you want?” Jade said cheerfully

“Pictures” he said abruptly

“Sorry?”

“Will you come to the pictures with me?”  He blurted out

“When?”

“Saturday” he replied with a crack in his voice

Jade did like him, she even looked forward to him coming in every day, he was a good-looking man, and he was very sweet, but he was older than her and he wasn’t an islander, so he was from a different background.

So she rather surprised herself when she said “yes”

And that was how it all began, a first date to The Forum Cinema in St Pierre to see a Mission Impossible movie.


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