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  1. Cover
  2. By the same author
  3. SUZY SUZY
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Glossary of Dialect Terms
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  89. About William Wall
  90. An Invitation from the Publisher

Tony, have you got a boyfriend?

He giggled. I never heard Tony giggle before. I wondered if it was a gay thing and he just like kept it to himself until he talked to me. Like maybe he always giggled inside but being in the closet it wasn’t something he could do in public. And then I wondered if I was in a closet too. Maybe I was lesbian. The Jack Thing was certainly not fab. Maybe you couldn’t really get to know a boy the way Holly and me knew each other. Like boys are about football and computer games. About Which I Knew Fuck All. And they were always whacking each other and bitching at each other. But now that I thought of it I only ever heard Tony laughing when he was with Tosser and the guys. And then it had to be that male shit laughing. Because peer pressure.

It’s not Tosser is it? I couldn’t stand having him in the family. I mean Tosser is OK, but you know what I mean. Well-named like.

But it wasn’t Tosser.

It’s not Great-To-Meet Micky’s eldest is it? I saw you with him the other day.

That fucking langer? Give me some credit, Suzy!

It turned out to be someone I didn’t know. And it wasn’t def yet. He’d let me know if it came right. And I asked him when he planned to tell Dad and he said he needed to pick the right time. And I said there would never be a right time. Like Tony is supposed to be a scion of the realm. My dad still thinks he’s doing real Engineering and will grow up to be someone who builds stuff. But in Elec, a fact that seems to have escaped my dad’s attention, they don’t build houses. They don’t even do the wiring.

Then he told me he heard something. It might have been a joke. Don’t ever tell Dad, he said, but he wanted to know how come Kelleher sold so fast.

It’s his casus belli, I said. We did casus belli when we did Bismarck.

What the fuck is casus belli?

Nevermind, just tell me.

Bowles let it slip that he dropped Kelleher a serious wad of cash. Under the table.

Fuck.

He said he understood that was how business was done in Ireland.

It legit is too. All the politicians are on the take. Remember whatsisname with the Charvet shirts? And all that gang? They’re only the ones that got caught. Dad does it too.

Does he?

I went silent. I didn’t know for sure.

Bowles is dangerous, he said. Don’t mess with him again.

Why is he dangerous? He’s practically a midget. He’s like totally challenged.

Just leave him alone.