The Chocolate Run

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by Dorothy Koomson


  We can find out if there was ever anything real between us. We can find out if we had any friendship at all, or if we only stuck together out of habit – a bad habit that we might have to give up. Whatever we find out, things can’t go back to how they were before, can’t return to ‘normal’. Everything’s changed. We’ve changed.

  ‘So, do you want to meet them?’ I ask.

  ‘I’d love to.’

  ‘Come on then. It’s their dinnertime soon. Bartleby and Loki eat loads, but Captain Picard’s a bit funny about eating. Mark Twain’s my favourite, but don’t tell Greg that, he’s always going on about me loving them all the same or some such hippy nonsense.’

  We have to find a new normal. That won’t be so bad. Not as long as we’ve got chocolate.

  The Chocolate Run, v. & n. Colloq. v. 1. The act of going out to purchase chocolate. v. 2. Moving with quick steps on alternate feet while in possession of chocolate. n. 3. The life of a person who thinks in chocolate and spends her life avoiding intimacy. n. 4. The emotional gauntlet we all go through at some point in our lives, eased by the consumption of chocolate.

  Table of Contents

  About the Author

  Also by Dorothy Koomson

  The Chocolate Run

  Copyright

  Dedication

  big kisses to:

  ‘there’s only one thing better than illicit sex – illicit chocolate’

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  ‘hmmm, a man or chocolate – put it this way, you’ll never be sat around waiting for a bar of chocolate to ring you’

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  ‘when you buy chocolate you’re buying yourself a new best friend’

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  ‘ask yourself this: would you be the person you are today without chocolate?’

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  ‘there’s nothing more satisfying than opening a box of chocolatesknowing no one has been there before’

  Chapter Twenty

  Chapter Twenty-One

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  ‘true strength is being able to eat a bar of chocolate without feeling guilty’

  Chapter Twenty-Four

  Chapter Twenty-Five

  Chapter Twenty-Six

  Chapter Twenty-Seven

  ‘love? it’s only chocolate without the calories’

  Chapter Twenty-Eight

  Chapter Twenty-Nine

  Chapter Thirty

  Chapter Thirty-One

  ‘i’d try therapy if chocolate wasn’t quicker and sweeter’

  Chapter Thirty-Two

  Chapter Thirty-Three

  Chapter Thirty-Four

  Chapter Thirty-Five

  Chapter Thirty-Six

  ‘what’s all the fuss about chocolate? give me a packet of crisps any day’

  Chapter Thirty-Seven

  Chapter Thirty-Eight

  Epilogue

 

 

 


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