My Husband Kissed His Girl Best Friend in Front of 200 People, So I Filed for Divorce novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Two People
On derby night The Wife was full by five.
Kickoff wasn't till half seven.
People came in City shirts and red scarves and a few brave blue ones, who were told off at the door by the barmaid and then served anyway.
The beer garden was full. The upstairs room was full.
Number twelve had brought her husband again. He'd started coming on his own on Tuesdays.
The cook had made a vat of chilli and called it Derby Day Special, which meant chilli.
I was behind the bar, pulling pints.
I'd learned how in a fortnight. I'm better at it than Nathan, which isn't hard.
Nic was on her stool at the end, in her sequins, my nephew next to her on a lemonade, wearing a City shirt down to his knees.
Alfie's dad was in his corner with his shandy and a crossword.
He'd stopped buying rounds for the house. Now he just came in.
At six the channel's van pulled up outside.
Nathan came in first, in his good jacket, microphone already in his hand.
The pub cheered him.
"Evening," he said to the room. "Please behave. My mum's watching."
"Your mum's here!" shouted the baker, and pointed.
She was.
A tall, quiet woman in a City scarf, sitting by the window with a half of cider.
She'd come in on Wednesday, looked at me for a long time across the bar, and said, "You'll do."
That was the whole conversation.
I'd been happy about it for three days.
The cameraman set up under the biggest screen, in the same spot as the semifinal.
The producer came over to the bar.
"So," he said. "The shot."
"You'll know it."
"That's not a plan."
"It's my plan," I said, and gave him a pint on the house so he'd stop asking.
At half seven the match kicked off and the pub forgot about everything else.
I've never cared about football.
I still don't, really.
But I stood behind my own bar with two hundred people shouting at six screens, and I knew every one of their names, or their drink, or their dog's name.
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