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

“Least I don’t have two nicknames.”


Nick half-grinned, his crooked teeth briefly showing. “To be fair, if it wasn’t for Maxi, I wouldn’t. Nobody else has called me Demi since I was about eight.”


“Technically,” Nick shrugged. “And you asked anyway, so I escaped. Got a couple of things to say to you.”


“Like?” Tab folded his arms. It was hard being angry with Nick, because…because he was a crappy liar. Tab knew that. Nick wore his mind on his face, and thinking back, Tab suspected he knew when Nick had realised, that session in the bagroom when he’d told Nick about Demi and Nick had gone all quiet for a minute. And Nick had said he hadn’t known long, and Tab believed him, even if he didn’t quite want to, and…


Chapter 53