“This is more interesting right now.”
“Can you explain it to me, too?”Chris complains.
“Dad has a thing.”
Chris immediately turns to me.“A thing, Martin?”
“I don’t… You can’t…”
“Is this the same person from that message?”
“What message?What did I miss?”Evan asks impatiently.
“A message for which your dad invented the bullshit of the year.”
“But he can’t even tell bullshit!”
“Exactly.But you see, for the C?”
“Move your arse, come on.”
At that moment, Ryan walks into the house, cutting the argument short, and for the first time in my life, I’m actually happy to see him.
“Don’t make a fuss!”Ryan exclaims.
Then someone else steps in behind him, and I suddenly feel like I’ve sunk into the deepest shit of all.
Chapter29
Jamie
Ryan invites me in for a beer, but when I see who else is in the living room, I get the feeling I’ve walked in on one of those moments when they talk about you, and not in the nicest way.
“Oh, shit!”Evan covers his mouth with his hand to hide a laugh.“I don’t want to miss this one.”
Okay.Now I feel like everyone already knows our little secret.Word travels too fast when the three deep throats are involved.
“Hello, Captain,” Chris greets me, spelling the words clearly.
“Hi, everyone,” I say, shifting uncomfortably.“I just gave Ryan a ride home.”I launch into a quick explanation, desperate to get out of this house.I can’t be in the same room as the Doctor without thinking about the other night.
“That idiot Ian left me stranded,” Ryan says.
“Didn’t you go to the training facility together?”
“Yeah, and we were supposed to come back together, too, but that dickhead dumped me there.”
“I see you keep pulling at your pigtails,” the Doctor observes.
I laugh.
Ryan turns to me.“Are you fucking laughing?”
“It was a good one.”
“Yeah, Dad’s a hoot,” Evan says.“But you already know that.”
Evan, worthy son of his mother and stepson of Ryan.This kid is a landmine buried deep.Sooner or later, someone’s going to step on it, and that’ll be the end.
