dress. Sharon sighed and pretended to pass out. “I can't, Denise, I'm pregnant . . .”
Forty-two “HEY HOLLY, I WAS JUST thinking,” Alice said to Holly as they were reapplying their makeup“ in the toilets at work before leaving for the day. “Oh no, did it hurt?” Holly teased. “Ha-ha,” she said dryly. “No, honestly, I was thinking about the horoscope in this month's magazine and I think Tracey may have got it eerily right.” Holly threw her eyes up to heaven. “How?” Alice put down her lipstick and turned away from the mirror to face Holly. “Well, first there was the thing about the tall, dark, handsome man who you are now seeing . . .” “I'm not seeing him, we're just friends,” Holly explained for the millionth time. Alice rolled her eyes. “Whatever you say. Anyway, then there was the thing . . .” “I'm not,” Holly repeated. “Yeah, yeah,” Alice said, disbelieving her. “Well then, there's the . . .” Holly slammed down her makeup bag. “Alice, I am not seeing Daniel.” “OK, OK.” She held up her hands defensively, “I get it! You're not seeing him, but please stop
interrupting me and listen!” She waited for Holly to calm down and listen. “OK, so the other thing she said was that your lucky day is Tuesday, which is today . . .” “Wow, Alice, I think you're on to something here,” Holly said sarcastically, applying her lip
liner. “Listen!” Alice said impatiently and Holly shut up. “So she also said that blue was your lucky
color. So today being Tuesday you have been invited by a tall, dark, handsome man to the launch of Blue Rock.” Alice looked pleased with herself as she summed it all up. “So what?” Holly said, unimpressed. “So it's a sign.” “A sign that the color shirt I happened to be wearing that day was blue, which was why Tracey
chose that particular color, which I happened to be wearing because everything else I owned was dirty. And she just picked the day off the top of her head. It means nothing, Alice.”