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the matter? Tell your Auntie Sam.”
    Dayna came back
out of the kitchen and sat down opposite them. She put out her
cigarette and said to Louise, “Tell Sam about Victoria.”
    Sam glanced at
Dayna before looking closely at Louise. “Is that it?” she asked
her. “Is it about this girl?”
    Louise nodded.
“I met her at Uni,” she said in a subdued voice. “I really like
her, Sam. You have to see her. She’s gorgeous!”
    Sam smiled at
her. Then Dayna dropped the bomb-shell.
    “But she’s
straight!” she pointed out.
    Sam stared at
the ceiling and sighed again. “Oh, Lu!” she exclaimed. “You are
you’re own worst enemy! You always have to reach for the
impossible, don’t you? Me and Dayna have introduced you to lots of
girls, and you’re never interested. But as soon as some high-heeled
bimbo type passes your way, you swoon!”
    Dayna said, “I
told her it was a fantasy!”
    Louise quickly
looked up. “It’s not a fantasy!”
    “It is!” Dayna
insisted. “They aren’t like us and it’s not going to happen!”
    “Becky’s like
that! You said yourself she was a babe!” Louise could have bitten
her tongue off as soon as she spoke.
    Sam glanced at
Dayna with a knowing look. “Oh, she is, is she?”
    Dayna quickly
dismissed it. “So I’ve looked and noticed, so what? You know me,
Sam. Anyway, she is a babe. And if she and Sal break up, Louise can
have a try! That’s what I told her before!”
    Sam laughed.
“They won’t break up. I already knew that you were interested in
Sal. Like you said, I know you. But you haven’t got a chance,
Dayna! Becky and Sal are a great couple. They deserve to be
together. And if you even try and split them up, I’ll have you
neutered!”
    Dayna didn’t
look like the threat would put her off for an instant, but she said
in a very pious voice, “As if I would do such a thing.”
    “Ha!”
    Louise was
staring into her coffee mug when she suddenly said, “Sal’s exactly
like me, and now that she’s found Becky, she’s very much in love
with her. Every time I see them together I’m terribly jealous. Not
because I want to steal Becky away from her, but because I want to
have what she has. I want someone like Becky. I know I’m being a
fool, but I can’t help it. It’s the way I am.”
    There was a
brief silence as Sam and Dayna exchanged glances. Then Dayna said,
“I still think you’re wasting your time.”
    “But I don’t
know that!” Louise exclaimed. “And I’ve got to try, haven’t I? If I
don’t, I’ll always hate myself!”
    Sam kicked
Dayna, producing a satisfying yelp. Then she said to Louise, “Never
mind what Dayna says. If you like this girl, then ask her. But if
you’re going to do it, do it as yourself. And tell your friends
first. That way if this girl should turn you down, at least you’ll
know that that’s the worst thing she can do. Okay?”
    Louise nodded.
“Okay.”
     
     

Chapter
Five
Friday
     
    When Victoria
didn’t turn up for the next morning’s class, Louise became very
depressed. Angela couldn’t fail to notice.
    “It’s that git,
Zach,” she told Louise. “I don’t know what she sees in him. But
whenever he turns up, she always ends up in some sort of trouble. I
wish she’d drop him.”
    “But if she
keeps missing lectures like this, she’ll fail the course,” Louise
said in dismay. What she really wanted to say was that she would
like Zach to be dropped from a great height over a shark infested
sea, but she didn’t.
    “I know. That’s
why Chrissy and I are going to go round to her flat in the halls of
residence this dinner time. Just to see if anything’s wrong. Do you
want to come?”
    Louise was
suddenly filled with wild thoughts. “Yes, I’ll come with you,” she
said anxiously. “If that’s alright with Chrissy.”
    “Chrissy won’t
mind. She needs all the help she can get.”
    Angela was
right. Chrissy just smiled when she told her that Louise was coming
too. “You’ll wish you