Laying the table for Sunday lunch, waiting for my guests to arrive, my phone rang.
‘Do you want us to bring anything?’ my best friend Carol, 28, asked.
‘Just yourselves,’ I chirped.
It was August last year, and she and her boyfriend Liam, 29, were popping over to my house for lunch.
They were like family to me.
I lived over 200 miles away from my relatives in Warwickshire, so I had them over at least once a week.
‘I hope you don’t mind,’ Carol continued. ‘But Liam has a friend staying and we thought we’d bring him, too? I think you’ll like him.’
‘Of course,’ I grinned.
I loved playing host.
The three of them turned up around midday, and Carol introduced me to Paul Thackray, 28.
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