The Birth Of Eve Read Free

hands..literally” They both burst out
laughing. Sue grabbed her bags and hugged her warmly.
    “Take care of my little boffin won’t you; she has missed you
like crazy. Now get some kip you look like shit!” Eve closed the door behind
her and went up to her bedroom. Sue was probably right; she should have tried
to at least get a goodbye kiss from Nathan.
    Entering her bedroom it was obvious Tara had readied her
room for her. She had put a vase of flowers on her dresser and the place was
spotless. Unpacking just the essentials, Eve slipped her pyjamas on to catch up
on some rest, there was a mound of post on her bed but she would deal with that
later.
    She switched her mobile on just to check there were no
urgent messages; to her horror there was a barrage of missed calls and
messages. Groaning she waded through them, nine were Nathan sending her smiley
faces and flirty one liner’s. The other sixteen were awful, some girl called
Sasha threatening her to stay away from Nathan.
     The fact this Sasha girl had Eve’s number  meant she had
got very close to Nathan’s mobile in the few short hours they had been apart.
She played back the first of her twenty messages, after listening to just the
first she deleted the rest. This Sasha was a whacko; she was full of poison
sending her death threats and foul mouthed abuse. Turning her phone off again
Eve decided her first job on waking would be to get a new phone number. Nathan
would then have no way of contacting her, or handing her number out to his
groupies.
    Five hours later Eve felt rested and had a new number. When
she had switched her phone back on there were another fifty messages, but
thankfully the network kindly changed her over for free. The only person she gave
her new number to was her agent; she would tell Tara when she got in later.
    Eve made herself a cup of tea and then sat facing the
mountain of mail. She began by sorting it into three piles; junk, bills and
important. There was one that puzzled her, it had been sent recorded delivery
and was from a solicitor in Northwich, Cheshire. Curious she opened it first,
after reading it she sat in silence her mind trying to absorb the information
it contained.
    Eve’s father had apparently passed away a year ago; the
lawyers had found no trace of her mother or sister. Therefore Eve was the only
living relative, and so the sole beneficiary of his estate. She was required to
contact them immediately and make an appointment to see the solicitor to
discuss details.
    Eve had only vague memories of her childhood home, it had
been a cottage near a railway, she wasn’t sure exactly where. The house felt
large at the time but who knows as a child everything feels big. Eve rang the
solicitor and arranged an appointment for Saturday; the day after tomorrow.
Folding the letter back up; she began working through the rest of the mail,
pushing her father to the back of her mind.
    Tara was home at four and the two girls had so much to catch
up on; it took three mugs of tea before they ran out of gossip. Tara wanted to
know whether Eve had met the kitten yet;
    “What do you think of Freud, our new addition to the
family?” Eve had forgotten about the cat and looked around for it
    “Is it a he then?” Tara nodded “I haven’t seen it since I
woke” Just then she heard a scratching noise. The girls followed the sound to
Eve’s pile of dirty laundry in the basket. In amongst the clothes they found Freud
nestled in a pair of her pants. Eve chuckled as she tried to untangle his claws
from the lace.
    “Great another man wanting inside my underwear” Tara frowned
at her with a questioning glance
    “You said Nathan asked you out not that he wanted sex with
you?” Eve shoved her
    “Don’t be silly it’s a turn of phrase, a joke you prude. Blimey
Tara you really can tell that you spend too much time with geeks and nerds. You
know nothing about the ways of the world” Tara smiled
    “That’s the way I like it thank you, I would