When Emma Jane Ratcliffe was approaching her twenty first birthday Blake Ramsey wasn’t at all surprised-on Monday to get an invitation, they had after all been friends since nursery school.
It had clearly been
established that Emma Jane was one of the popular group, Blake was in no
uncertain terms, not.
He was not athletic,
artistic, or sexy but they did have intelligence in common and his forte was
science, in particular Physics.
So under normal
circumstances, friendship and intelligence aside, why would one of the popular
girls invite a Science geek to her 21st birthday party?
Anyone not close to her could
be forgiven if they were surprised but Blake was not.
They would have been further
surprised when it turned out he was only one of six guests at the party, one of
those being Emma Jane herself.
Though for Blake it certainly
wasn’t a surprise knowing her as he did, she was never a flashy person, so she
didn’t want a big flashy party with lots of superficial friends.
In the days following the
engagement party at the Beaumont, Dale Power couldn’t get Eden Hills out of his
head, and by the Tuesday he was totally smitten.
His Dad was a massive Star
Trek fan and when he was a child he watched the films with his Dad, and when he
first saw Eden, he was taken back to his childhood when he watched the first Star Trek
movie.
In the movie there was an alien
character, Lieutenant Ilia, onboard the Enterprise, played by Persis Khambatta, and
she was completely bald, and in his adolescent sexual awakening the sexy bald alien featured heavily in his fantasies.
Since meeting Eden at the party his youthful yearning had been rekindled
and he looked forward to seeing her again, and as she worked with the horses at
Woodside Farm, and he worked for the only Blacksmith’s on the island the
chances of them meeting again were very high.
While Dale was fantasizing
about Eden, Michelle Kendal was doing the same about his older brother.
She was approaching
twenty-four, was five feet two with brunette hair and an olive complexion and
she had it bad for Mark Power.
He was a couple of years
older than her, and they had known each other for a few years because she
worked with horses and he shooed their horses, but she hadn’t been able to make
that count.
Even when they both attended
the same engagement party, she couldn’t get close enough to him, for long
enough to seal the deal.
However, on Wednesday she found out that he had also been invited to a
mutual friend’s birthday drinks in Spaniards Creek that Friday, and that
offered her an opportunity that she wasn’t going to waste.
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