Katherine and April
Katherine Getting off the early train and putting my luggage in a locker I spent my first day in the city trawling property rental offices. My grad-friends are already taking their gap year doing the things graduates from wealthy families do; nanny in Tuscany, backpacking the antipodes, digging wells, that sort of thing, all on family money. Don’t get me wrong I have done all those things and more in summers past. I was not even intending taking a gap year after graduating. Until first night home. Until Boris suggested we get engaged. Until I had gotten home. As late as it is my parents are still up, drinking tea. They pretend not to have prior knowledge when I tell them my news, Mummy even fake-surprise hugs me. Boris’s family and mine are neighbours, well their land borders ours. Boris and I have been a sort-of item since our late teens. I imagine our families have already been secretly planning a party. As late as it is I spring my engagement avoidance idea on them s