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

“I’m not even going to answer that,” he said, and told Maxi, Pics or your brother is made up.


“You are such a harsh, sceptical, narrow-minded…” JuliKate was saying, and Eddie was calmly munching his way through piles of overdone spaghetti.


Tab knew it wasn’t true. Love existed. And it could happen just like that—it had happened to Uncle Eddie just like that, whatever he said. One minute he’d been married to Auntie Anna, and the next there’d been a divorce and ‘Tab, this is Julian’ and Mum had said something about soulmates. (Tab didn’t remember much, he’d not been very old at the time.) But anyway. Love did just happen sometimes. And he was pretty sure if he actually mustered up the courage to talk to the guy in the gym, just once, he’d be in love proper.


Only it was never going to happen, so…


Chapter 5