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LIAM
The house fillswith the smell of perfume and the sounds of girlish laughter. Ella drinks milk in the kitchen, dressed in blue and white PJs and watching my every move. I walk across to the huge, white fridge and pull out a beer.
“Are you going out with Mummy tonight?” she asks.
I wrinkle my nose at her. “No, I don’t think your mummy and Lou would want me there. I don’t wear enough perfume.”
She chuckles. “You’re funny. Men don’t wear perfume.”
“I do. I like to wear really, smelly perfume,” I whisper.
“Like Mummy’s? My mummy smells nice.”
“I’m sure your mummy does smell nice,” I say, and I have no idea why.
“Whose mummy smells nice?” asks Louise as she walks in carrying her high-heeled shoes.
“Liam says Mummy smells nice.”
“What? No! We were talking about how people smell!” I protest.
Louise arches an eyebrow. “When did you start sniffing my friends, Liam?”
“I didn’t. For fu.—” Louise throws me a look and I glance at Ella. “The house stinks of perfume. I’m in a house with teenage girls again.”
“Better than your teenage boy feet,” retorts Louise. “I see Mum put your boots outside. Nothing changes, huh?”
I glower at her and Ella giggles as she watches our sibling argument. Yeah, nothing changes; I’m no rock star in this house.
Louise is dressed for a Christmas night out, short, tight, black dress, red tinsel in her hair and flashing red and green Christmas tree earrings.
“Is Connor going with you?” I ask her.
“No, girls’ night. We’re leaving the men at home.” She smirks. “It’s been a long time since me and Cerys had a girls’ night together with friends from school.”
“Cardiff, two years ago,” says Cerys as she joins us in the kitchen.
“Yeah, you would move to bloody Cardiff so I never see you anymore.”
Cerys shifts her look to the floor. Her and Ella live in Cardiff now? Why the hell is she in St Davids? As Cerys isn’t looking at me, I check her out, but feel inappropriate imagining my little sister’s friend naked. So I try not to. And fail. Her dress isn’t as tight or revealing as Louise’s, a dark blue and a bit floatier or however a girl would describe it.I will not look at her tits.I fail at the exact moment Cerys lifts her head and looks at me. I pull my mouth down into a ‘sorry’ face.
Cerys puts a hand to her necklace, where the pendant sits against her skin above the top of her dress. She twists the gold chain around a finger, glaring at me. The diamonds set into the gold heart catch the light.
“I like your necklace,” I tell her.
“Sure, you were looking at my necklace, Liam.” Cerys sits on the chair next to Ella and pushes on her black heels.
“You look pretty, Mummy,” says Ella.
“Thank you, baby girl.” She kisses Ella’s head and musses her hair.
“You smell good,” adds Ella.
Louise snickers and I shoot her a warning look in case she decides to share our earlier conversation. Raising both eyebrows, she opens her mouth, still looking at me. “Liam says you—”
For fuck’s sake, her body grew but she’s still an annoying kid sister. “Shut up, Lou.” I grab her around the waist and try to put my hand over her mouth.
