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

“He didn’t tell me when he worked it out,” Tab mumbled, toying with the remnants of his food.


“Like I said, kid struggles to know what to say after ‘hello.’ Go easy on him. Not everyone’s bright like you. And anyway…” Eddie shrugged. “I won’t say more on it, but let’s say he came here because he had trouble elsewhere, yeah? Once burned and all that.”


Tab flushed, still turning the phone over and over in his fingers. Trouble was right, if Maxi had told the truth. And to get Demi and Nick…it was suddenly, weirdly possible, and yet the unease wouldn’t settle. The choice was literally in his hand. He could tell Nick to piss off, or…


Or, one of his gods murmured in his ear, you could have the exact thing you wanted from the beginning. Two for the price of one.


Tab snorted. This wasn’t an offer in the supermarket, Jesus.


Chapter 51