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ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
     
    Georgina brought a cup of strong espresso coffee up to Emma. She sat on the bed and bent forward to hug her roommate. Emma had not said anything since she had got back from Italy. The drawn expression on her face said it all. Georgina had kept quiet for six days now, but she could not shut up forever, especially as Emma was not eating and the vibrant beauty was fading. Love sick. Heavens if this was real love then she was glad she did not have any experience, Emma looked ill. The vibrant energy was gone. She functioned. She went to work, she did her share of the housework, and she existed...a sad state of affairs. Under her pillow was a growing mountain of love letters, so it was not that he had chucked her and she clearly hadn’t chucked him either since she replied by hand to everyone, sending love quotes or spilling her dreams onto paper. On the chest of drawers in their bedroom sat photos of their families and snap shots of them together. What the hell was going on?
    Emma looked up at her closest friend with dull eyes. “I am sorry Georgina, I haven’t been very good company lately.  Italy was not a great success. His ex girl friend did not take well to my arrival and his mother was frankly a cow! He was about to propose to me. I just am not strong enough to live my life far from my friends and family surrounded by hostile people. I don’t know if I love him enough. He...he even suggested living abroad, but one day we would go back and he cannot cut off his family. We might even be happy for a while...but it would not last forever. He would grow to resent me. I just feel empty without him. I do not feel I am alive. I don’t even have the energy to cry anymore. What shall I do?”
    “Do you remember we were going to go away together on that Ayurveda yoga retreat? You were going to study it and perhaps open a studio? When times are unbearable sometimes a change of scenery and the discipline of yoga and meditation could be useful. You might get things into perspective. If when we come back you still feel the same then perhaps you should get him to come and see you at weekends? I am sure you’ll find a solution. If it is meant to be it is meant to be. I think we could have a great time in India. I need to do an article on it so they will pay for the time we are there. I think we could have a special time together. If you stay here sweetie you are going to fade away.  Your work have told you they can spare you for 3months which was instead of taking that fat bonus. If I was in your shoes I would get in writing that they will have you back and get the hell out of here. It will be good for Carlo too. He would want you to do something for you for a change you are always doing it for others.”
    “I think that sounds great. Here everything reminds me of him. I have always wanted to go to India with you. I cannot see Carlo in India and much less doing yoga!!” she smiled her first smile since her return.
    “Give me a day to book everything and we will leave sometime next week if you are sure.”
    “Down dog here I come!”
    “Sun salutations!! Just imagine whilst everyone is dying of cold in London we will be lapping up the sun and getting fit as well!!”
    Emma hugged her friend. Georgina always found a solution to everything. They had been friends ever since they went to kindergarten together. The thought that one day they would not be sharing a room and lead separate lives felt frightening. They had survived the perils of boarding school in the far bounds of Scotland together and remained friends throughout.
    “We promised to do the twenty eight day holiday and then go for our tour together. If at the end of two and a half months you are still in love then I say you will find a way!” Georgina, laughed. “You will find a way”
     
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    Carlo looked