I’ve just got home from the show. Are you ready for the big news?
Bumble and Catherine have broken up.
And he broke up with her, not the other way around.
And guess what else? He told Liam O’Callaghan that it’s because he fancies another girl.
Can you believe it?
Trudy Higgins told us, at the interval. She said Catherine was really upset. She said Catherine fancied Bumble for ages in primary school – which would explain why she was always so unfriendly to me. Trudy said the only reason Catherine went out with Terry McNamara was to make Bumble jealous.
I repeat, can you believe it?
I could hardly concentrate on the second half of the show, my head was spinning so much. I was so sure that Bumble would be the one who ended up broken-hearted.
I tried to feel sorry for Catherine, really I did. But somehow I kept remembering the bitchy comments she’d make about me at school, and how she’d only been using poor Terry all the time to try and make Bumble jealous, and it was very hard to have sympathy for her.
She was in the show too, but she only had a small part this time – one of Queen Guinevere’s ladies-in-waiting – and she and Bumble were never onstage together, which was probably just as well. Chris was a pretty good Sir Lancelot, and a girl I didn’t know was brilliant as Guinevere.
Dad was coming to drive Chloe, Ruth and me home after the show, but I told him I’d ring him when we were ready, because I wanted Ruth to meet Chris. So we were hanging around near the dressing rooms afterwards when who should come out but Bumble.
I hadn’t spoken to him since the night of my first date with Chris – just a few months ago, but it seemed longer. He said hello to Chloe and me, and I introduced him to Ruth, and he tried not to look surprised that we were together (remember he was the only one who knew about how nasty Ruth had been to me?).
We chatted for a bit, and then Bumble said he and I must meet up for a Coke some time to catch up, and I said that’d be nice, and then Chris came out, and while I was introducing him to Ruth, Bumble did a disappearing act.
I don’t think we’ll be meeting up. It’s just something people say, isn’t it?
On the way home, Ruth said she thought Chris was nice. She must have been too tired to think up something rude.
I haven’t mentioned that Chris is my boyfriend to Dad yet. There’s no rush.
