scene thirty-eight - notice - year eleven

Apparently, Blake had a girlfriend called Molly, and they’d been through some shit but they were still going strong—nine months, and, Thomas said, if that was long enough to make a kid it was long enough to make a stable relationship. Jinx, real name Jasper—they weren’t sure which sounded more ridiculous—had a drinking problem, and his best mate, Ben, was a lightweight, who was hilarious to watch drunk. Jinx was going out with a Year Ten, Riley, but he’d been out with most of the girls in school, and slept with most of them too, if his boasts were anything to go by. Ben wasn’t going out with anyone, and various credible sources reported that he had an extremely small dick. Thomas liked Ella, but she was, ostensibly, going out with a dickhead in college, so that was a dead end.

It all sounded a lot like a soap opera—probably why they’d never paid any attention before.