Chapter 14. Lucas?

Proserpina

Two evenings later, Tanya came into my room with Rachel in tow.

"Listen Barbie, "she said in her usual blunt way, [she sometimes called me Barbie, though I could never figure out why], "listen up, we're going to a party and you're coming with us."

I began to stammer my refusal but Rachel came forward and hugged me, whispered loudly, "Marianne the Snob will be there too and we need to show her what you are really like, right?”

I hesitated. At some point, I had explained that I had fled from the hostel, because of Marianne. she added, squeezing my hand,

“We got this, girl.”

The thought of how I had ended up on a stranger's carpet, doing unspeakable acts of passion, made me blush furiously. Marianne was the last person on my mind now.

The girls, however, would not take a No for an answer. I tried to put my foot down but Tanya was adamant.

“Jazz's rugby team has won the championship,” she explained. “It is a big