51 Christmas Eve

“Oh Monica, we need to go, we have to get home!” Sarah

exclaims. Julien body tenses, like fuck is she taking Monica home. Julien looks to Monica, to her mischievous smile up at him. “Oh babe, I have to do something at my townhouse. I forgot until just now,” she says like that’s all the explanation Julien needed to hear. “What is it you have to do?” Julien asks, he knows that she’s very tipsy,

and if she thinks that Julien was letting her go anywhere without him she’s bloody nuts. “Umm … I umm … I have to … you know …” She’s looking to all the girls to help her. Help her what? What could she possibly have to do that she can’t tell Julien? She is being like a puppy in front of her friends? “Told you, he’d find out. You’re a fucking hopeless liar, Monica,” Bray laughs at her. “Find out what?” Julien asks very pointedly to Monica, who is

squirming in her seat. “Argh, it’s a surprise and I’m not telling you because it’s a surprise for you. But you can’t see it because it’s a Christmas sort