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He smirked at her joke and whispered back, “Thanks, but I need to get going”
She nodded “Don’t worry, Danni won’t be mad you left”
“Good to know”
“She would have thrown you out if you didn’t leave yourself”
He grinned “Is that right?”
“Oh yeah” Her roorinned back “She’s my hero She’s better at this shit than anyleft the flat feeling amused and more than a little relieved
“Pick a girl and settle down, Craig, before you catch a terrible disease You know your dad was the saina”
La la la, la la la la
“Son, are you listening to me?”
Nope Because there were soina was one of the the conversation had never happened, he opened the fridge, scrounging for a snack
The fridge was almost empty
Craig frowned, shut the door, and turned to look at his mum as she made hie empty?”
His ar into his drink “Och, don’t giveday but they called me in to work to cover for soo fortomorrow”
After escaping Danni’s flat that otten home to his own flat and crashed until late afternoon He’d showered and dressed, caught up with so around to his mum’s on his way to work to check on her
“So you’re okay?”
“I’m fine” She handed him his coffee and sat down at the kitchen table
Craig followed suit “Are the girls okay?” He referred to his two sisters, Jeannie and Maggie
“Fine Both getting on fine” She reached over and patted his hand “You don’t need to worry so irls moved out”
For ten years—since he was fifteen years old and his dad died—Craig had been et a job and help his mum out financially He hadn’t et jobs and help out too Now Jeannie was engaged at twenty-two and living with her fiancé, and Maggie was in the second term of her first year of university at Aberdeen
This meant the pressure was off him somewhat, but it was hard to shake the responsibility and the constant concern he’d felt for the
“And how are you really, Mus left?”
A spark of sadness entered her eyes and Craig felt it in his gut “I rin “I’ a cat”
He shot her a grin His mum Cat lady Somehow he couldn’t picture it “I’ll try to come by more often” He stopped over once a week for a coffee before his shift at the bar, and he talked to her on the phone a couple of times a week too