Chapter 55

“What’s up with him?”

“Fuck knows, he’s being shady as fuck today,” Jude said dismissively. “You alright?”

“Yeah. Aunt Kerry heard us and Mum was freaking out in the car about us talking about sex.”

“Oh right, yeah, ‘cause you’re a total fucking virgin.”

“Isn’t fucking virgin an oxymoron?”

“What’s an oxymoron?”

“It’s like saying ‘clever Jude’,” Emma called mockingly, then came to throw her arms around Anton’s neck in a hug. “Take him off my hands today?” she wheedled. “He’s being a pest.”

“I am not.”

“It’d be the best birthday present ever.”

“Hey!”

“I suppose I could do that,” Anton said thoughtfully, and Jude kicked him. “Ow!”

“You’re supposed to be on my side. Bros before hos.”

“But you’re not my bro, you’re my ho.”

Emma cackled with laughter, and Jude’s affronted scowl was nothing short of ridiculously attractive, so Anton softened.

“I suppose I could be on your side occasionally.”