I've Got Your Number (Page 57)
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I’ve Got Your Number(57)
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Today she’s sent him yet another long, tedious rant, saying that she wants Sam to find her a special brand of German exfoliator while he’s over there, but he probably won’t bother and that’s just like him, after all that pâté she dragged back from France for him, it made her gag but she still did it, but that’s the kind of person she is and he could really learn from that, but has he EVER wanted to learn from her? HAS HE???
Honestly. She does my head in.
I’m scrolling back up the endless stack of emails when one alerts my attention. It’s from Adrian Foster, in marketing.
Dear Sam,
Thanks for agreeing to present Lindsay’s birthday flowers to her—they’ve arrived at last! As you weren’t around today I’ve put them in your room. They’re in water, so they should keep all right.
Best,
Adrian
It wasn’t actually Sam who agreed to present the flowers. It was me, on behalf of Sam.
Now I feel less confident this was a good idea. What if he’s frantically busy tomorrow? What if he gets pissed off that he has to take time out of his schedule to go and present flowers? How could I make this easier for him?
I hesitate for a moment, then quickly type an email to Lindsay.
Hi, Lindsay,
I want to give you something in my office. Something you’ll like. Stop by tomorrow. Anytime.
Sam xxxxx
I press send without rereading it and take a swig of cosmo. For about twenty seconds I’m relaxed, savoring my drink, wondering when the canapés will start to arrive. Then, as though an alarm clock has gone off, I start.
Wait. I put kisses after Sam’s name. I shouldn’t have done that. People don’t put kisses on professional emails.
Shit. I retrieve the email and reread it, wincing. I’m so used to kisses, they popped out automatically. But Sam never puts kisses. Ever.
Should I somehow try to un send the kisses?
Dear Lindsay, just to clarify, I did not mean to add kisses
No. Awful. I’ll have to leave it. I’m probably overreacting, anyway. She probably won’t even notice—
Oh God. An email reply has already arrived from Lindsay. That was quick. I click it open and stare at the message.
See you then, Sam.
Lindsay xx ?
Two kisses and a winky face. Is that normal?
I stare at it for a few moments, trying to convince myself that it is.
Yes. Yes, I think that’s normal. It could definitely be normal. Simply friendly office correspondence.
I put my phone away, drain my drink, and look around for another. There’s a waitress standing a few yards away, and I start to thread my way through the crowds.
“ … policy Sam Roxton’s idea?” A man’s voice attracts my attention. “Fucking ludicrous. ”
“You know Sam … ”
I stop dead, pretending to fiddle with my phone. A group of men in suits has paused nearby. They’re all younger than Sam and very well dressed. They must be his colleagues.
I wonder if I can match the faces to the emails. I bet that one with the olive skin is Justin Cole, who sent the round robin telling everyone that casual dressing on Fridays was compulsory and could everyone please do it with style ? He looks like the fashion police, in his black suit and skinny tie.
“Is he here?” says a blond guy.
“Haven’t seen him,” replies the olive-skinned man, draining a shot glass.66 “Stubborn fuck.”
My head jerks in surprise. Well, that’s not very nice.
My phone bleeps with a text and I click on it, grateful to have something to occupy my fingers. Ruby has sent me a photo of some brown hair, with the message:
Is this a toupee???
I can’t suppress a snort of laughter. Somehow she’s managed to snap a photo of her date’s head from behind. How did she manage that? Didn’t he notice?
I squint at the picture. It looks like normal hair to me. I’ve no idea why Ruby’s so obsessed by toupees, anyway. Just because of that one disastrous blind date she had last year, where the guy turned out to be fifty-nine, not thirty-nine.67
Don’t think so. Looks fine! xxxxxx
As I look up, the men who were talking have moved away into the crowd. Damn. I was quite intrigued by that conversation.
I take another cosmo and a few delicious pieces of sushi (already this evening would have cost me about fifty quid if I was paying for it) and am about to head over toward the jazz band when I hear the screechy sound of a microphone being turned on. I swivel round—and it’s only about five feet away on a small podium, which I hadn’t noticed. A blond girl in a black trouser suit taps the microphone and says, ‘Ladies and gentlemen. May I have your attention please?’ After a moment, she says more loudly, ‘People! It’s time for the speeches! The quicker we start, the quicker they’re over, OK?”
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