Chapter 33

Elizabeth Summers

Adam had really screwed up. Pushing Patti away as he had been doing for the last few days was bad enough but last night he had publicly rejected her. Half of her classmates had witnessed her humiliation, she wasn’t going to forgive that easily. It was going to take some serious grovelling.

We had spent the last few hours drinking coffee on the sofa in the living room while Jasper and I tried to think of a way to get Patti to give Adam another chance. The whole thing was proving a lot more difficult than we had originally thought it would be.

None of us were particularly experienced when it came to human dating conventions. In the end we resorted to watching some romantic films for inspiration. Jasper had his arms around me while Adam studied the screen as though he was studying for finals.

Two films later and we were all even more confused than we were at the beginning. It all seemed so convoluted. None of them seemed to be able to recognise their soulmates and they o