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My teachers gave me hell of course. This is your Leaving Cert Year, Suzy Regan, you’re never going to get an A if you don’t shape up.
That kind of shit. It’s their job.
But Leary just shook his head and started on revising the Battle of Stalingrad. It’s like he understands.
The big news was that Serena had an actual not Jason, not Larrydemaster, boyfriend. Holly told me. I don’t know if you can believe that. Terms and conditions apply with Serena. I said that to Holly but she said no she was legit dating this guy from the Brothers’. What Holly was amazed about was that he was meant to be a nice guy. Or so people said. What’s a nice guy doing with Serena The Hate Message Queen? His name was Jack. It wasn’t James or John, it was Jack from the start. Like we both knew Serena was doomed to end up with some sleazeball, but Holly was saying this Jack was OK. It was a miracle. He was a year younger than Serena. He was in fifth year in the Brothers’. He was in the Brothers’ and we were in the Nuns’ and there were no Brothers in his place and no Nuns in ours. All the brothers and nuns evacuated the premises before we arrived. But we were still coming down with religion. I asked Holly if Serena had done anything with him yet and she said she didn’t think so, they went to the pictures and they went to a food place and that was all. She heard they went to see Minions, which is just totally Serena. A film about depressed unmotivated single-cell organism descendants who live in a cave is as good as Michelangelo to her. Or Da Vinci or whatever. Somebody big. I saw the trailer and it looks like crap.