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“I don’t know if I want to remember”

“Poppycock Of course you do I’ to leave first and make sure the coast is clear, and then you’ll follow ht outside of the main entrance downstairs, there’s a little park halfway down the street Meet you there, okay?”

She nods

I head out of the room Now for a distraction to make sure none of the nurses or orderlies notice India leave her roo vase of flowers Perfect I sweep past it, jogging it with lass shattering on impact

“Oh reat distress “How did that happen?”

Ia sweet little nobody again, the kind who can’t possibly be blaiven that I’ather to clear it all up, I back away, and take the elevator down to the ground floor

India is waiting for me in the little park We walk to the local tube station and I take her back to Shoreditch When we exit from the station at Shoreditch, she looks around herself nervously

“I’m not sure I want to do this,” she says

“Yes you do,” I tell her fir out now”

I guide her in the direction of the scene of Friday night’s revelry and disaster As The Half Moon pub cos her feet, and I have to tuck her arm into mine to make her come inside the bar with me

It is busy inside, packed with the crowd of after-work city workers She ss hard as she looks around I drag her by the arm to the bar

“Do you reht?”

She shakes her head Then she nods, sooose ht it was cool”

I order the drinks and we stay at the bar, sipping the back?”

She nods She is looking at a particular section of the pub, a booth of seats towards the back “We were over there We were dancing and drinking”