"Sundays!" Mai muttered, putting her plate in the sink whilst Sadie put Harley's jacket on, Charlie was looking in the mirror and Sam was picking up his keys and wallet. "The day for spending with your family, to sit down together and have dinner, and catch up, that's what you lot are doing. Me, I get to spend this Sunday watching cheesy films and looking through UNIT files, hurrah!"
"Well good luck with that." Sam said, kissing her on the cheek before heading out the front door. "Bye!" He called back, shutting the door behind him.
"Yep, and were off too." Sadie said, picking Harley up.
"Byeeeeee!" Mai said, kissing Harley on the end. "Right." She sighed, slumping on the sofa, turning on the telly. "A day of nothing."
She woke with a start, the files flying off her lap. She shook her head and looked at the telly, the credits of some film she was watching rolling down the screen.
"Shit." She muttered to herself, picking up the files and putting them on the table, pressing the flashing button on her answering machine.
"Mai." Captain Magumbo's voice rang through the flat. Mai panicked for a second, pretty sure she didn't have work today. "It's ok, I just need you to drop off the keys to the cupboard for Eliza, she lives round the corner from you, but she needs them by 5." Mai looked at the clock, 4:55. She grabbed the keys and pulled her shoes on, leaving the machine playing out.
"Mai?" Luke's voice echoed as the front door slammed. "I know we haven't spoke since, well, you know. I just want you to know I've gone back to uni for a bit. Miss you. Ring me please." The machine beeped.
...
Mai pushed the front door open, taking the key out of the lock and shutting it behind her. She plonked her keys on the side, sighing to herself before trailing through to the living room, where Sadie, Charlie and Sam had returned. They stared at her nervously, as Sam held out a blue envelope to her silently. She gulped, staring at it for a few seconds before cautiously taking it out of his hands, tearing it open carefully, and taking out a piece of white card.
"It's blank." Charlie said, as he, Sadie and Charlie exchanged confused glances.
"It's got a perception filter on it." Mai said, smiling a little. "My eyes only." She said, slowly turning it over and reading it.
"What does it say?" Sadie asked.
"Don't worry." She grinned.
Need to see you. Where we last met, at 7.
...
Mai wrapped her coat round her tighter, walking along the road in the dark. Her heels clicked against the pavement as she pushed the door open to the familiar cafe, sitting down at the table in the corner by the window, opposite a woman with ginger hair tumbling over her, looking out the window.
"Didn't think you would come." The woman said, staring out of the window. "Thought you might think it was them."
"I knew it was you."
"Gramps is getting married." Donna turned her head, smiling at her.
"Who to?" Mai grinned.
"Minnie."
"Minnie the menace?"
"Yeah."
"Wow."
"Mai, I want you to be there."
"At Gramps' wedding, Donna are you mad? They don't know you remember, who are you gonna say I am?"
"I'm gonna tell Mum and Gramps."
"Your what?" Mai hissed.
"He may have left you but I'm still the closet family your agreeing to talk to, so your coming, ok? And your gonna be a bridesmaid."
...
Mai pulled back the curtain, the slim cream dress hugging her figure. Donna and Sylvia smiled at her as Mai walked into the middle of the room, looking round at herself in the mirror.
"I wish he was here to see this." Donna muttered. "Both of them."
"Donna, don't." Mai sighed. "What do you think, is it ok?" She was interupted by the sound of her phone bleeping. She picked it up as Donna and Sylvia chatted among themselves whislt waiting for Minnie to come out of the changing room.
It'd look better in white. Mai sighed, turning round and looking out the window, out into the street. On the other side of the road, sitting in a cafe, looking out of the window sat Luke, on his phone. He didn't look up, he just carried on staring at his phone. 2 minutes? He quickly texted, before she could reply.
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