CHAPTER ONE
THE BET
New Message to: Olivia Harris-Finke on Facebook
You won.
New Message to: Rose O’Brady on Facebook
I beg your pardon?
Rose O’Brady
You mean you don’t remember?
Olivia Harris-Finke
No I’m afraid I don’t. But then I haven’t heard from you for ten years, Rose darling, so I’m probably slightly behind the eight ball. (What is the eight ball, by the way?)
So what have I won, exactly?
Rose O’Brady
You won the bet.
Hey anyway you were the one who stopped answering my emails. I thought maybe you moved or something. But then I looked you up on Facebook last month and everything was just the same, so maybe it wasn’t that after all.
Olivia Harris-Finke
Of course I didn’t stop answering YOUR emails. It was you who stopped answering mine. I thought it was because your ISP had cut you off, or something of the sort.
Rose O’Brady
WTF?
Olivia Harris-Finke
Well you know how you’re always forgetting to pay bills. I even wrote a letter, and you never answered that either!
WHAT BET?
Rose O’Brady
Well maybe we both just forgot. Isn’t that supposed to happen when people get married and have kids? Who needs friends when you’ve got a nuclear family!
Anyway let’s get off this frigging thing! Email me! purplerose@hotmail.com.
As so often happens when I come here, I am confused but amused.
What bet?
Yeah, it is confusing..it’s the first chapter of a silly novel. I should put ‘Chapter One’, that would sort it out. Confused but amused..that’s funny!
hhmmm…I’m curious about the “bet”, too!
I guess that could be a good sign! Thank you! It’s a novel, I’m just putting it out there for the occasional comment. It’s a bit of a silly one really, but better an audience of 2 than 1! I’ll clean it up and make it clearer that’s what it is. Thanks again, White Lady!
Make that an audience of at least 3! A bet from years gone by is a good plot device and I am another who wants to know what it was… 🙂
Well, thanks for that! Now I’m scared it’ll be a bit of a let-down (I bet you I could run all the way to the shops and back?). But I’d love some feedback, good and bad – so thanks.
I am not sure if you do awards or if you already have enough, but you have inspired me so I have nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award. 🙂 http://blessedwithastarontheforehead.wordpress.com/
Thanks very much – sure, I do awards, I’m an award slut, like Dotty Headbanger. So again, thanks a heap, and I will do the required things soon.
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