"Why are you calling me?" I ask him, wanting to know more importantly how he even got my number.
"To see if you need me to bring anything for tonight? I've got toilet paper" He sounds proud of his toilet paper too, like it's some big achievement.
"Tonight?" We made plans to hang out? I'm actually friends with Lucas? And why would I need him to bring toilet paper to my house?
"Remember, we're watching the replay of the game together tonight? We made the plans last week, don't tell me you forgot already?" He says, chuckling to himself.
"I should have probably checked to see what Veronica is doing tonight." She can explain to me how it is that Lucas and I became friends again.
"Veronica Kreslin?" He asks me with a hint of surprise in his voice. "You want to call up my ex from high school and find out what she's doing tonight? I thought you got over this years ago mate."
"Got over what exactly?" I ask him, getting pissed off that he still won't recognise her as my girlfriend, referring to her only as his ex.
"That obsession you had for her, my nose still hurts occasionally from where you broke it too by the way." He laughs heartily.
"I broke your nose?" Is it bad that I feel proud of myself, even though I never actually did it?
"Yeah you did, when you caught me cheating on her with that girl from Sydney, how can you not remember?" He asks me as if he's remembering it fondly. "It was Christmas, 1999, you came home from England, we went out for drinks, I hooked up with that skank and you unleashed on me, calling me a handful of names before right hooking my nose and not speaking to me until we saw each other at Alex's funeral, in 2005."
"Alex, shit." I was with him just moments earlier in the tube station, he can't be dead, he's getting married this weekend.
"Yep, I think about him often, first holiday out of Australia and he gets killed in a terrorist attack." Lucas says. Is that what happened today? Was it a terrorist attack? "So, tonight?"
"I really need to find Veronica so whatever plans we had, I'm going to have to cancel." Not that I give two shits about dipping out on Lucas.
"This better not end with me getting punched again Sam, I haven't stepped out on another woman since you roughed me up." He sounds scared of me and I like that, cocky Lucas finally got was coming for him.
"You deserved it." That I know is true.
"Well we've both grown up since then, it's now water under the bridge." He says tensely, like he's afraid of getting me offside. "I'm now a twice divorced man and you're living back with your dad so I'd say we're even."
I live with my dad? Surely he's got that wrong, although the trophy cabinet suggests otherwise but how could I be living with Dad? Where's my bunny girl?
"Is Veronica still in London?" I ask him, trying to figure out where she is and how I can get to her, looking around the room I see no resemblance of her in my life, the photo's I had displayed of us together are missing from my shelf, there's only the one of Lucas, Roni and I taken at year 11 camp, still in it's original frame which would be impossible because I saw Lucas smash that frame against my wall the night of Roni's 18th party.
Dreams
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