Lou stirred her hot chocolate. Her half-hearted diet wasn’t going well, or rather, had never truly started. It felt impossible in this chilly weather to contemplate salads and bottled water instead of warming casseroles and her beloved milky chocolate drinks.
Karen hadn’t helped.
‘Honestly, it’s no big secret, you know. Just eat less and exercise more. You said you want to meet someone to share your life with, so shape up and you’ll get men noticing you.’
It irritated Lou that anyone would think that she somehow wasn’t good enough just because she didn’t have the perfect figure, and wasn’t plastered in make-up or wearing the latest fashions. Surely how you treated people was the most important thing when it came to love?
Karen had been Lou’s best friend since school. One thing she admired about her was her honesty, or what Karen claimed was her ability to ‘tell it how it is’.
But sometimes, Karen’s reality wasn’t quite ‘how it was’ for Lou. Sometimes, Karen’s version
