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

I ran again. This time I went as far as the road. Then I thought they would have called the guards and the guards would come by the road. FFS. I would have to go home across the fields and the moon was down behind clouds. I decided to take a chance on the road and if a cop car came I would see the headlights in time. I ran all the way home. Serena wasn’t there.

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My dad freaked. Legit he went purple in the face. I thought he would have another heart attack. The Dog went back to his basket. He just puts his head down when people shout. I was thinking oh fuck oh fuck. My dad is going to die because I did some pyromania with Serena. Like I googled stents and they can fail. And where was Serena? And my dad was saying how dare I leave the house in secret like that, and who was I seeing, and I was trying to say I felt bad and went for a walk to clear my head, and my dad said, What’s that smell? And I said, stupidly, I thought I saw smoke up at Ballyshane, I might be wrong. And suddenly my dad went upstairs and opened the bathroom window. And you couldn’t see anything.

Well, you could see lights.

There’s no fucking fire anyway, my dad said. But all their lights are on.

He closed the blinds again.

I don’t want you sneaking out of the house, miss, my dad said.

No, Dad. It was just this once. Look my boots are filthy from the fields.

He looked at my boots.

Take your boots off and don’t be traipsing it all over the house, will you look at the state of that floor!

OK, Dad, sorry.

And stop shouting or you’ll wake your mother.

Sorry.

Stop saying sorry.

I took my boots off and wrapped them in toilet paper. I should have used kitchen towel. Dad decided to go back to bed. I said, See you, Dad. I went into my room and closed the door and very fast tucked some pillows into the bed to make it look like there was someone in there. Then I undressed and got in. I was thinking, This is so random, where is Serena, what’s going to happen when they find out, I don’t believe this is happening. And what was my dad doing awake at that hour walking around in his old-guy pyjamas?

Then I heard him go downstairs. I heard him go out. I heard the car move off doing its best to stay quiet. My dad making a mysterious getaway in the dark of night. Maybe he couldn’t sleep idk maybe there was a house for sale and he wanted to be first in the queue.