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

Thankfully, though, Maxi was an evil villainess and didn’t cry long. She snuffled and blew her nose horribly loudly into the toilet paper and then turned her attention to the mirror and trying to get all the smudgy mascara off.


“Sorry,” she mumbled. “It’s just, you know. They’ve never put her in a coma before.”


“And I feel really crappy because I was out with Josh Felton—you know, ginger Josh, from the drama department—I went out with him yesterday and then Mum had to take Alice to hospital and Demi stayed up with Alice until like two in the morning when they put her under and he was shattered when he got home and Demi’s never shattered, and…”


She sniffled dangerously, and Tab patted her arm. “Um,” he said. “I’m sure it’s just a precaution. To like, let her rest and focus on getting better and stuff. Right?”


“Mm, maybe,” she snorted unpleasantly, and Tab wrinkled his nose. “Oh shut up, I’m allowed to be ugly when I’m upset.”


Chapter 35