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

Yet…yet the way he’d coloured when he’d confessed, the way he always hunched his shoulders and put his hands in his pockets, the way he spoke so shortly and never for long…


It…it didn’t fit, it couldn’t be…


“Look, if he knew he should have told you earlier, I get it,” Maxi said, her stance softening. “But I don’t get the deal, Tab. The two guys you’re crushing on are the same. That’s good! And Demi likes you, he must do if he’s still texting you, he never talks to people normally, he’s really awkward and daft, he’s worse than Dad. That’s why he’s Alice’s favourite, he always volunteers to take her places so people don’t try to talk to him and Mum’ll stop banging on about him being antisocial.”


Tab swallowed. Hard. “He said he was bullied.”


Chapter 50