Life's not easy when your mum's nuts, your uncle is becoming your aunt, and one of your crushes could -- and probably would -- break your face if he found out how you felt about him. That's Tab's life, though, malevolent gods and all. His text-flirting with Demi, the brother of his best friend, is going nowhere: Demi already has a boyfriend and anyway, who dates their best friend's twin? But then, the pining after Nick is going nowhere either, because Nick probably likes gay-bashing on Friday nights for fun. He's gorgeous, but he's dangerous, and Tab knows better than that. So what's a bit of harmless flirting, when one is taken and the other is straight? It's just a bit of fun. That is until Demi is suddenly single, and Nick is not looking as straight and scary as he was before.

The Suicidal Peanut

It was one of those…boy-meets-boy-who-is-totally-going-to-kill-him-if-he-finds-out kind of things. Only without the happy ending, because, sadly, there wasn’t a God of Turning People Gay.


So Tab never asked. He kept it quiet, and didn’t breathe a single word of his crush, no matter how tempting it was. No matter how much he dreamed, and prayed to his gods, and hoped. A futile hope, but he did it anyway.


Chapter 3