The Girls Table 2

Bring a few bottles of wine?

Another year goes by, week after week, drama on drama and we begin this meeting hand on heart to begin our national anthem.

*queue Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun*

Our scene is set on the terrace of a house in North London, it’s a warm summer night, the sky is painted with hues of purples and oranges. The kind that makes you wonder about the universe we live in.

‘Do not start without me!’ our host shouts from the open window of the kitchen. Soft music plays in the background, and we imagine once again what life would be like without this sacred girlhood we find ourselves in. Boring I assume?

The table is filled with this wine and that wine. With cheeses and grapes. Crackers and dips; tzatziki and houmous. Mediterranean salads and watermelon salads. Bruschettas with heirloom tomatoes and olive oil drizzled on top from Greece.

Each girl sits and looks out onto the busy road below them, the host finally sits down sighing and grabbing a glass of wine. One is curled up with a blanket, whilst another stands on the edge with a cigarette. Two sit side by side hugging and whispering romances to each other no one else can hear. Sharing glances only given to those of a lover.

They all look at each other and like clockwork, those outside noises drown out.

Love and Its Complexities

I can just imagine what our kids would look like

He can’t be trusted

You should send that to The Girls Bathroom

I like him but he doesn’t do anything

Oh he liked my story again, big whoop

Baby, I’ll get that for you what do you mean?!

God, men.

Fictional men are so much better

Will I ever really trust anyone again?

Your person is right around the corner

I can’t believe people settle

I don’t even get butterflies anymore

Matthew McConaughey in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, or I don’t want it

Romance feels so dead now right?!

Nonchalance is so boring! What happened to obsession?

I just want to fall in love

Does The Gossip Ever Stop?

What the hell do you mean she went behind your back?!

Oh did you hear about that guy from school?

And then I told him, ‘grab your shit and go!’

She got married!

I really need to watch Pretty Little Liars

My co-worker won’t leave me alone

Can you believe he was still texting her next to me?

Did you see what they posted?

If I was Padme, I’d join the dark side for Anakin

Oh my god, I’m losing my mind!

How distasteful

I hope she’s doing better now

It really was Team Edward all along

We really should mind our business?

To Checkout Please

Girls, I swear by this palette it’s so good!

I really want a nice bikini set, but God! Why so expensive?

Did you get the tanning butter?

Those shoes are so hot!

All the stores are so boring recently

You will not guess what I found on Vinted! A Gucci Monogram Hobo Bag!

Autumn fashion is so much better girls

I really recommend this hair serum, it’s like magic!

Should I get you one too?

Loaded and Boarded

Are we all free a week in July?

Let’s add luggage we’re going to need it

Where to for our bestie date this month?

OMG there’s 80,000 people in the queue for The Weeknd

How about a weekend getaway in October?

Where the hell are we going next year?

American road trip? Brazil? No, Caribbean?

That restaurant on Bond Street is so good, let’s book it in

Euro summer for sure?

Should we go to a club?…. HAHAHA yeah I didn’t think so

That new film just came out, let’s go

Okay so I booked the beach club

Come round for tea?

The hours blend into one another, as the sun sets and those orange hues turn into a starry night. The moon shines like a spotlight on our little scene. The love we couldn’t find elsewhere, we find on this table we sit around. The kind that transcends time and space. Unbound by the rules of rationality but bound together in our girlhood and unconditional love for each other. The Girls Table once again lifts all those weights of our shoulders.

Table a mess, empty wine glasses. Stacked plates, ashtray full to the brim. Bellies full and content. Yet none of it matters as we sit in one another’s presence; delighted to be living in the same dimension, the same timeline, together.