Joseph met Lucy and her future husband, Oliver, when they all began studying drama together at LAMDA. They were the best of friends and an unbreakable trio from day one. Joseph has never told his best friend however that he's been in love with his w...
Ollie was being weird. He's been super cagey since we got back from Italy three weeks ago. He seemed to change the subject of conversation a lot when I entered a room when he was talking with Nikki or David. They both told me I was imagining it. But I knew he was plotting something. The one person I wanted to talk to I couldn't because he was currently in....god where was Joe now? Croatia? I knew if Joe was here he'd talk it out with me and help me make sense of it.
He'd be home in a month. He'd kept his promise of sending a postcard of every place he visited. Even Puglia and we'd surprised him there. The postcard he's sent had a photo of the coastline on the front and on the back he'd written
Dear Lollie, (which was apparently our couple name) I promised I'd send you a postcard from everywhere I went. And I'm scared of you when you're angry so I'm writing this as you sit on the beach next to me.
❤️ Joe xoxo
I hadn't even realised he was writing a postcard as we sat on that beach on our last day in Puglia. But it made me laugh when I found it in the letterbox.
Today Ollie was being even more weird than the past few weeks. He almost looked sick. He was pale and sweaty and he couldn't make eye contact with me. He was annoying me frankly so I said I was going to go for a run.
I pulled on my joggers and put in my head phones blasting some music as I ran. I waved at our elderly neighbours as they arrived home from being out and then ran and ran and ran. I ran for about an hour before turning around to run home again. My phone buzzed in my pocket and I stopped to read a text from Ollie.
14:32 Ollie You've been gone a while. Everything ok?
14:33 Just having a good run. On my way back. I'll be home in half an hour.
When I got home I noticed David's car was gone. "Olls!" I yelled from the front door as I kicked my joggers off. "Yeah!?" "Has David gone out?" "He's gone to mum and dads. Can you come here please?" "Can I shower first? I'm all sweaty." I heard a groan but then "make it quick sweetheart!"
I ran upstairs into mine and Ollie's bathroom and showered quickly, changing in to some clean tracksuit bottoms and an oversized T-shirt of Ollie's that I'd stolen. When I got back downstairs I heard him call out "can you come in to the lounge room?" I followed his voice and walked in to the room gasping at what I saw.
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"OH MY GOODNESS WHO IS THIS?!" Ollie grinned at me and held the tiny puppy in his arms. "This is your new puppy. He hasn't got a name yet." "What?! MY new puppy? Oh OLLIE!" I ran to him and pulled him in to a kiss before taking the puppy from his arms getting a good look at him. "Oh you are just so precious! Oh I could eat you up yes I could!"
Ollie smiled at the baby talk and I grinned back ecstatically. "Ollie he's so beautiful! Thank you! What brought this on?" "Well I know you miss Thing. And I couldn't bring myself to get a tarantula. And I know how much you love dogs. So this little guy is ours." "Freddie." "Hmm?" "I want to call him Freddie." Ollie grinned at me again. "Freddie? I like it! Freddie!" The puppy yapped at that moment making us both laugh.
