Chapter Thirty

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Saturday was spent in the most beautiful wine filled daze, topped off with the most amazing taster plates at the final vineyard

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Saturday was spent in the most beautiful wine filled daze, topped off with the most amazing taster plates at the final vineyard. Liv and Ruben both had to admit that this was probably their favourite day of the trip so far.

However Sunday morning laying out by the pool FaceTiming the group who once again were at the pub for Ivy's 20th birthday party she couldn't help but feel a little bit home sick. She had offered her biggest birthday wishes to the birthday girl who was wearing a rather see-through black dress that reminded Liv of exactly the same one she has at home before she then caught up briefly with Celeste before Ruben quickly reminded her that their car would be arriving in 30 minutes and however much it was a casual type of day the black bikini she was wearing wasn't really going to be appropriate.

They had spent the day in Orange wandering around and trialling out everything imaginable. She had wore her Cherry print dress that Celeste had convinced her to buy by telling her "it's a food event Liv, this will look cute" and she couldn't agree more. She had paired it with a trusty pair of black heels that Ruben had declared she would be moaning about half way through, but she didn't care, she wanted to look good.

Once again she filled the groups WhatsApp chat with photos of her day, her trying different foods, a photo of Ruben pulling his face from some passionfruit martini that he was sure they had put a triple in, before ending their day in a nice wine bar sharing laughs about the day. As they walked back to the hotel, well Ruben walking and Liv on his back after her heels were giving her blisters, she couldn't quite believe how much of a perfect Sunday she had just had.

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Liv was once again filled with those Monday morning blues when she woke up in her hotel room. She wasn't sure if it was the fact that they were leaving Orange and heading onto their last stop of the trip, or the fact their food festival's were now over. Or maybe it was due to the call she had with Celeste this morning.

"It was gross" Celeste had said, sat in her bed on Sunday night UK time as Liv rubbed her eyes as the sun shone in on her Monday morning "like they were sucking each other's faces off, like I have NEVER seen him behave like that, but it was tacky, classless" Celeste carries on as Liv feels this strange feeling in her heart "and then of course she went up to his, it wasn't even inconspicuous, I dunno I just thought better than him".

Liv wasn't sure why she was feeling this way, or why she thought this would be any different than any normal occasion, she knew Declan and Ivy had hooked up in the past but she kind of didn't think they were doing it anymore.

She didn't know why she thought that recent events had changed things for the pair of them, because they had for her, she had Ruben throwing himself at her daily and she hadn't done anything about it, she didn't want to. But now she feels a bit foolish.

She listened to Celeste fill her in about the rest of her day, how the Sunday Lunch club had Beef today and Debbie had made Declan put in a bulk order for Lamb next weekend for Easter, she listened as she told her about how Ben burnt his tongue on the sticky toffee pudding after being told by Aaron not to eat it yet and let it cool, as he had to take over Sunday service with Declan claiming he had the hangover from hell and how she had actually had a better day today.

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