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

“Neither do you. And I do know you.”


“Don’t ‘Aunt Kate’ me,” she retorted, and Tab winced at the slightly shrill volume. Womanhood had not softened her in the slightest. “Take it from me, chasing after that kind of a boy is a bad idea and if you encourage your crush by this drawing lark, it’ll break your heart in the end when he’s not interested.”


Tab wanted to protest that Nick might be interested, but he didn’t believe it for a minute, so he demanded, “What do you know?”


“Oh, please,” JuliKate said tartly. “As if you’re the only one. I spent six years carrying a torch for a man who wasn’t interested. Six years. I knew from the beginning it wouldn’t work but I nursed it anyway, and it doesn’t matter if you think that…”


“Shut it,” she ordered gruffly. “You need to get a grip on this crush, Andy. Not encourage it. Why don’t you find a nice boy at college, huh? Someone suitable. I’ve been there, and it’s not pleasant when…”


Chapter 14