26a by Diana Evans

Author:Diana Evans
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061873065
Publisher: HarperCollins

KEMY WAS LEARNING to walk on the moon. During her seven years of Michael Jackson worship she’d done everything a number one fan must do. The poster she’d had since she was five, the one of him in a black suit leaning against a wall with his hands in his lovely pockets, was tatty now, brown at the edges, and it was rolled up under the bed. She’d replaced it with the Thriller poster, Michael in a red leather jacket with a werewolf behind him, clutching his shoulders. When she was eight, she’d written him a letter asking him to come over for apple pie and then take her to the Wimpy in Willesden for a burger (“I like cheese and bacon,” she’d written, “but the twins don’t—they don’t like pork because Ham’s pork and that’s the name of our hamster. He died. Do you like pork?”). So far Michael hadn’t replied but Kemy didn’t mind, she understood he was very busy and that he probably never would write back.

She was going to that concert. Even if she had to go with Aubrey. She wanted Bel and Jason to take her (the twins were too young, they had no money, they were not much better off than her) and Bel had said they would—but they might not have time in the end, what with being parents. But she was going. Oh yes. She was going to moonwalk outside the arena in the queue and inside too, in the aisle. For her practice sessions she referred to the instructions provided in her book, Michael Jackson: The Rules of a Number 1 Fan:

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