Hello. Really short chapter tonight. Let me know what you think. x
Kate read the sentence again and hesitated a split second before opening up the text message. She was tired after a long shift, and this wasn't making any sense to her. Then it became clearer when the full message came up.
2.31am Pink photos (Jen)
Hi. I'm so pleased you called. I haven't been able to stop thinking about you. Yes... I would totally love to meet up with you. To see you again. To talk. After you left the hospital I thought that was it. That I would never see you again.
Seeing you again after all this time made me reevaluate my relationship with Sophie, and I realised that it's just not the same as us. Never has been, never will be... well more HAVE been... we broke up today. Feel awful, but couldn't ignore how I've been feeling the last couple of days.
Oh God, you still make me feel like a school kid and right now my heart is beating so fast! You sounded a wee bit drunk in your message ;) so I'm half expecting you to read this message and realise that it's all been a huge mistake on your part. I would totally accept that and respect your decision. IF on the other hand you haven't changed your mind (fingers crossed) meet me tonight at 7pm at the bar in the Tate Modern. Hope to see you later. Love Jen x
Kate's hand was shaking as she reread the text message. She felt like someone had punched her in the stomach and winded her. She walked back to lean on a wall for support. What the fuck was going on? Who was this Jen? And how did she know Tilly? What did she mean about seeing her again? Kate racked her brain and didn't recall Tilly ever mentioning a Jen to her, but then Tilly had always been a bit secretive about her past relationships, insisting that there had been no serious relationships before they had got together. Kate had initially struggled to believe that someone as sexy as Tilly wouldn't have had significant relationships in the past, but she had to learn to trust Tilly was telling the truth for the sake of their relationship.
Kate thought back to Tilly's behaviour over the past couple of days. She had been surprised when she had returned home from the hospital and said that she had cancelled the booking and a friend of a friend would be doing the photos instead. Kate had been slightly annoyed as she had really liked the style of the pink photos. She had let it go as she had been pleased that Tilly was at long last taking some interest in the wedding. Then there was the trip to the shop for ice cream only to return empty handed. She hadn't been as affectionate as usual. Normally Tilly is up for it all the time, but Kate had blamed it on their different shift patterns rather than someone one else!
As she sat there on the sofa taking it all it felt like someone had literally pulled the rug from under her feet. Everything she thought she knew about Tilly was now being questioned. She figured she had two options:
1) storm upstairs and demand an explanation from her fiancée, or
2) delete the message and get the answers herself from Jen by going to meet her tonight.
The first option would show that Kate had read her text message which wasn't great. It seemed that Tilly had left the message whilst drunk, no doubt out with Sam who Kate knew didn't like her. So maybe she would wake up and realise it had been a massive mistake. Accusing Tilly of cheating, reading her text messages... It could massively back fire.
Option 2 seemed the more sensible one, That way she could find out what the hell was going on with this Jen before saying anything to Tilly. Kate's mind was made up. She quickly deleted the message and put Tilly's phone back where she had found it before slowly heading upstairs and into bed next to Tilly who was fast asleep, none the wiser.
