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“Hmm, don’t think so.”
“Then how is Santa going to leave us presents?”
“Santa’s supersmart,” she explained. “He’ll get your daddy to fly down from heaven and use magic to open the door…”
“What happened to him, Keith?”
“I don’t know, Sadhbh. Maybe he took something at the dance.”
“Call one of his friends. If he did, then we need to call for an ambulance!”
“I’ll go and get Sinead.”
“Be fast about it!”
“Why would you say that?” Leaping off the couch, Caoimhe moved as far away from me as she could get. Like I was dirty. Like I was bad. “Are you telling lies, Gerard Gibson? Because that is the worst, most awful thing you could say about a person.”
“I don’t know,” I heard myself reply.
“You don’t know if you’re telling lies or you don’t know why you said it?” she demanded, hands on her hips. “I’ll give you one more chance to tell the truth.” Her eyes looked so mad. “Then I’m telling your family what you said.”
“I…” I shook my head, feeling so sad because I knew what she wanted me to say, and I wanted to please her. She was my favorite babysitter. She told the best bedtime stories, and nobody came in my room when she was here. I didn’t want her to go. “I…” Frowning, I thought really hard about what to do, trying to find the words that would make her happy and like me again. “I…was…making a joke?”
“Oh, thank god!” She sighed out this big, loud breath and then she came back to me. “You must never say things like that, Gibs.” She sat down on the couch beside me. “I know I was your babysitter before I was Mark’s girlfriend, but you can’t make up stories about him because you’re jealous…”
“Claire? It’s Sadhbh, love. There’s something wrong with Gerard. I think he might have taken something at the dance. I need you to come home right now. If you know anything about what he might have taken, you need to tell me now.”
“What’s she saying?”
“What, Claire? I can barely hear you, pet. Just calm down and stop screaming, love. Tell me what happened.”
“Sadhbh?”
“Shut up, Keith. I’m trying to hear the girl. The line is bad and she’s bawling her eyes out.”
“See?” the blond in the office encouraged, pressing the palm of my hand against her breast. “That feels nice, doesn’t it?”
I nodded slowly.
“Have you touched a woman before?”
I shook my head.
“Do you like how it feels?”
I nodded again.
“You’re so cute.” Smiling, she reached for my other hand and pushed it into the waistband of her skirt. “You can practice on me if you want…”
“Gibs.”
“Oh, Johnny, thank god, you’re here. He’s after losing it. I don’t know what to do for him. He’s after putting his hand through a mirror and everything.”
“Sadhbh, I need you to read this.”
“What is it, Johnny?”
“Just read it please.”
