Me-Before-You-by-Jojo-Moyes

moving on with their lives. I made a mental note to think more carefully about
how my actions might make an impact on his life. I didn’t want to be angry any
more.
‘Let’s do the maze. I haven’t done it for ages.’
I was pulled back from my thoughts. ‘Oh. No, thanks.’ I glanced over,
noticing suddenly where we were.
‘Why, are you afraid of getting lost? C’mon, Clark. It’ll be a challenge for
you. See if you can memorize the route you take in, then take the reverse one
out. I’ll time you. I used to do it all the time.’
I glanced back towards the house. ‘I’d really rather not.’ Even the thought of it
had brought a knot to my stomach.
‘Ah. Playing safe again.’
‘That’s not it.’
‘No problem. We’ll just take our boring little walk and go back to the boring
little annexe.’
I know he was joking. But something in his tone really got to me. I thought of
Deirdre on the bus, her comments about how good it was that one of us girls had
stayed behind. Mine was to be the small life, my ambitions the petty ones.
I glanced over at the maze, at its dark, dense box hedging. I was being
ridiculous. Perhaps I had been behaving ridiculously for years. It was all over,
after all. And I was moving on.
‘Just remember which turn you take, then reverse it to come out. It’s not as
hard as it looks. Really.’
I left him on the path before I could think about it. I took a breath, and walked
in past the sign that warned ‘No Unaccompanied Children’, striding briskly
between the dark, damp hedging which still glistened with raindrops.
It’s not so bad, it’s not so bad, I found myself murmuring under my breath. It’s
just a load of old hedges. I took a right turn, then a left through a break in the
hedge. I took another right, a left, and as I went I rehearsed in my head the
reverse of where I had been. Right. Left. Break. Right. Left.
My heart rate began to rise a little, so that I could hear the blood pumping in
my ears. I forced myself to think about Will on the other side of the hedge,
glancing down at his watch. It was just a silly test. I was no longer that naive