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

Only Zombie Tab wasn’t the least bit interested in Nick’s brain


“Put your eyes back in your head, kiddo,” Eddie guffawed, and Tab recovered himself enough to throw the wet cloth at his uncle. As soon as the disruption had come, it had gone, and then the glass door clanged shut and Eddie’s muffled voice was demanding something of the disturbed class.


Tab blinked at his sketchpad, and the black-and-white drawing—haphazard, but distinctive—of Nick. Of those wide shoulders and visible-but-subtle muscles. Of that wild beauty, that somehow looked sexier still in the aftermath of a clash.


He fumbled out his phone. Can’t come out tonight, he told Maxi, and then switched it off so she couldn’t persuade him otherwise. He couldn’t. He just couldn’t go out—not with Maxi intending to push him and Demi together—when he had Nick on the brain like that.


He switched pens, found one approaching the right colour, and began to ink in a pair of brown, green, golden eyes. 7


Chapter 18