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

Did Nick have any brothers and sisters?


Tab loaded the picture—and laughed, then scowled, then replied, NOT WHAT I MEANT!


It was a photo of a photo, and grainy photo at that. A school photo, of sixty or more teenagers in blue-and-yellow blazers. Tab recognised the blazers from old pictures of Maxi and her mates. The comprehensive on Grange Street. And all the faces too tiny to be picked out, and the name-plate at the bottom obscured.


You didn’t specify, genius ;) I’m in there! Third on the left, second row.


Tab squinted at the specified face, but it was just a pale smudge in rows upon rows of blue and yellow. Stupid Demi. He was white. Well that was helpful. Given that, oh, his twin sister was white, Tab had kind of guessed that


Chapter 24