Late that evening, after she had drunk the wine, Emma turned on her television. The first person she saw was Dexter Mayhew. Suddenly, Emma realized that it was exactly a year since she had spoken to him. She knew that Dexter’s TV career hadn’t been very successful recently. Viewers had never really loved him, it seemed. They had only loved to hate him. And nowadays most of them just hated him. Dexter was now presenting a very late-night TV show about computer games. Few people watched it.
Emma did watch the show for a few minutes. She thought that Dexter wasn’t looking well. His face was looking tired and he no longer seemed confident. Suddenly , Emma had a great feeling of friendship and love for him. She realized that for the last eight years, she had thought about Dexter every day. Now she knew that she wanted his friendship again. She wanted him to be her best friend again.
‘I’ll call him tomorrow, she told herself. ‘I really will call him.’