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“It doesn’t matter,” Tadhg replied, giving me a horrible taste of Deja vu. “I don’t care.”
“What happened?” I strangled out, feeling my heart hammer violently in my chest. “What the fuckhappened, Tadhg?”
“Dad hit Shannon,” Tadhg bit out. “So, I hit Dad.” He spat out another globber of bloodied snot. “Dad hits harder.”
“Jesus Christ,” I choked out, staggering to my feet, when a surge of panic rocketed through me. “Ollie and Sean?“
“Are in your room listening to music,” Shannon hurried to say. “I hope that’s okay. It’s the only place they feel safe.”
It wasn’t okay.
None of this was okay.
I’d been knocked on my ass again, and I was losing the will to get back up on my feet.
“Are you staying home tonight?” Shannon asked. “Or do you have plans with Aoife?”
“No,” I replied, pulling my phone out of my pocket and quickly unlocking the screen. “I don’t have any plans.”
Joey: Change of plans. Can’t meet up tonight. I’ll see you at school tomorrow.
Molloy: Absolutely unacceptable, Joseph. I’m outraged.
Molloy: Joke. Hope everything’s okay?
Joey: All good. See you in the morning.
Molloy: Okay.
Joey: I don’t love you. x
Molloy: I don’t love you back. <3
Sliding my phone back into my pocket, I pushed all thoughts of Molloy out of my mind and got down to the business of cleaning up my parents’ mess.
FAVORITE EXCLUSIVE FRIEND
SEPTEMBER 1ST 2004
AOIFE
“Look,Neasa, it’s the boyfriend stealing bitch herself.”
Resisting the urge to laugh out loud in their faces, I pretended to ignore the girls from my class, as they shuffled past me on the footpath outside of school on Monday.
“What a bitch.”
“Sucha bitch.”
Grinning to myself, I continued to suck on my lollipop, thoroughly amused by Rebecca’s blatant dislike of me.
I had no doubt that thescarlet womanlabel they assigned to me back in fifth year would follow me into the months ahead, but I had a hard time caring.
Especially when. scarlet women got to kiss sexy bad boys like Joey Lynch.
Yeah, we had been liking each other exclusively for about nine months now, and while he went into panic mode every time I put a label on us, I considered myself to be his girlfriend.
Whether he liked it or not.
