Attending a wedding the day after a breakup isn’t anyone’s idea of fun, but on a day of love and acceptance Maria Hoyle comes to an important realisation
When I hit the red telephone symbol on my mobile to end The Conversation – reluctantly because his voice still soothed me – I remained sitting in my car at the Auckland Domain. It was a beautiful day. The sun did what the sun does, it blazed and was annoyingly cheerful, like that stranger on the street: ‘Come on love, give us a smile’. I will not give you a smile, can’t you see I am busy being in pain?
What had gone wrong? What had I said, or done? How could I change, to make sure this works the next time? Next time, ha. Will there be a next time? Shouldn’t I just take the hint, adopt another cat, and resign myself to solitude? Should I spend a few years ‘working on myself’ before I tackle my next romantic Everest? Oh shut up and get out of the car.
I opened the door, swivelled around in my very clingy dress, stood up, took a deep breath and headed towards the bandstand. To a wedding.
THE HAPPY COUPLE
I wanted to stride across the grass… proud, defiant. But my choice of clothing and high heels obliged me to take farcical pin steps. Just when I wanted to be a lioness, I had to mimic the gait of a dachshund.
The rotunda was filling with people. As I got nearer, I spied an ex. Yes another one. They litter my history – ex, ex, ex, ex, ex, ex, ex – a long line of cold kisses.
‘Okay, you can do this,’ I told myself. Lights, camera, action. And…
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