Spring has reached the irritating point in Wellington.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone is trying to cram in social engagements and important work tasks before the start of the “silly season” . Willow is about to have words with her flatmate, Wazzer, who has started to bring home the pick of this year’s handsome drunk backpackers at 2 AM. Winona and Will are being prickly, Will with spring libido and hay fever, Winona aching more than ever for a baby to dress in cunning summer onesies. Then, something happens to unify them.<\/p>\n
Winona flicks her phone onto mute. “Will, can we have brunch with Ulrika and Wayland next weekend? I’m trying to get out of seeing my cousin Angela too much.”<\/p>\n
Will freezes. “Angela? Angela from Auckland? Awful Angela? Christ, I can just see her contorting her trout pout to sneer at our car.\u00c2\u00a0 Why’s she condescending to leave the Big Smoke?”<\/p>\n
“She’s selling pharmaceuticals now. Apparently they hire stunners like her to talk the doctors into them.”<\/p>\n
Will, well aware of Angela’s pulchritude, remains unmoved.\u00c2\u00a0 To a bloke like him, that polished daughter of Auckland commits the cardinal sin: being high-maintenance. Winona’s tousled hair and chipped nail polish are suddenly dearly beloved. “Yes, let’s do that brunch, take them out to Eastbourne and see Nan on the way back.”<\/p>\n
“Brill, Will! Mum can’t say no to that.” Smiling cheekily, she flicks the sound back on. Will strategically heads to the bathroom for a few minutes. When he emerges, Winona looks deflated.<\/p>\n
“I got us out of anything over the weekend. But Angela wants to do Courtenay Place with me on Friday night.”<\/p>\n
“D’you have to? She’s a grown slapper.”<\/p>\n
“Aunt Agatha up there’s been so good to me for years.” Winona sighs, recalling pick-ups from the airport, shopping fun, and long dreamy stays at Agatha’s rambling Matakana bach, marred only by her cousin’s whining and bullying. “Maybe Willow has a salsa dancing thing we can go to?” She picks up her phone again, typing this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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