Cherry: Oh good grief – you met someone famous and I wasn’t there! What was he like?
Niamh: Well – funnily enough, Cherry, he could have passed for a regular human being! He didn’t have two heads or anything!
Tom: He’s shorter than I would have expected though.
Niamh: Yeah…it’s a bit surreal seeing him in our village park, isn’t it! I can’t see why he’d buy that tiny little cottage.
Lizzie: Maybe it’s for a holiday home or something?
Niamh: I don’t know, it’s not an obvious choice! You’d buy something in Sandbanks, wouldn’t you, if you had lots of money.
Lizzie: Not if you wanted a place in the country! Sandbanks isn’t exactly quiet, is it? Maybe he wanted somewhere more peaceful.
Niamh: Maybe – but you’d think he’d buy something with bigger anyway, that cottage is tiny.
Tom: Maybe I could find out a bit more when I deliver his post? If there’s a package or something he has to sign for, I could try and get a conversation going. Although judging by today’s encounter, that might be hard work…
Lizzie: Oh, I don’t think you should, Tom. You should respect his privacy.
Tom: Lizzie, I’m not going to interrogate him! Just try and be friendly, like I would with anyone that moved into the village.
Cherry: Yeah but you should probably go carefully – you don’t want him to think you’re being nosey because he’s famous – he’s not to know that you’re just nosey anyway, is he?
Tom: I’m not nosey! Just being neighbourly!
Cherry: Whatever!
Niamh: It’s funny, isn’t it, seeing someone in real life when you’re so used to seeing them on TV or in magazines? Seeing them without that gloss! He’s still a nice looking boy though.
Tom: Is he?
Niamh: Well not as drop dead gorgeous as you, Tom, obviously! And Lizzie was impressed!
Lizzie: His fingernails were bitten right down.
Cherry: Honestly, Lizzie – you meet a pop star in the park and you’re looking at his fingernails?
Lizzie: Well, I just noticed when I helped him with his shopping. They looked sore.
Tom: I tell you what, next time I deliver his post I’ll ask him why he bites his nails, okay?
Niamh: Or better still – why don’t we pop round later with a bottle of Stop’n’Grow for a house-warming present!
Lizzie: Oh – you lot are so immature sometimes…
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