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

“Why’d you come out to see me?” he mumbled.


“Coincidence,” Nick said, holding the door to the pub. It was a quiet street-corner type; the barman looked even younger than Tab, high-fived Nick wordlessly, and nodded at the Fosters pump. “Yeah, go on, Rob. Cheers. Nah, coincidence,” Nick repeated. “Was going to the canteen actually. Hospital air makes me thirsty.”


“Working on it,” Nick grinned. Tab’s heart skipped a beat. Maybe two. Three. Okay, whatever, it went for a full-on attack. “Actually, I was gonna tell you something next time I saw you, tried to at the interclub, but fuck it. Not the time now.”


“Yeah, next time. If you don’t run away again. Cheers,” Nick handed him a pint, and clanked the glasses. “So what’s wrong with your mum?”


Chapter 46