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

“Worse’n your mother,” Eddie grumbled, and headed out.


Tab ignored him. He got his artistic streak from Mum, sure, but he liked to think his father had been sane. Or maybe that came from Uncle Eddie, given that his dad was apparently equally nutty and into dancing around rocks naked as Mum. (Tab was pretty sure he was conceived on a rock, under the full moon, probably somewhere in the middle of freakin’ Ireland.)


Chapter 6