BLOOD DRUGS TEA (A Dark Comedy Novel) by Saunders Craig

Author:Saunders, Craig
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fable Books
Published: 2014-06-03T04:00:00+00:00

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It was eight o’clock by the time I got home. I should have been the right side of drunk but instead I just felt like I was getting a headache. I lay back on the couch and stared at the telephone. I still hadn’t called Joe. I guess he would have been pulled in by now. I knew I should call Harry but I couldn’t face it.

The phone finally rang. I picked it up on the eleventh ring. I figured whoever it was would get bored and leave me alone, but it obviously wasn’t going to happen.

“Hello,” I said into the receiver.

“Jake, it’s Joe.”

“Joe,” I realised as I said it I was sounding dumb. I wasn’t expecting Joe to be out yet. He didn’t know I knew and I wasn’t ready to let on yet but he told me anyway.

“I’ve been at the police station this evening.”

“Really?” I said for want of anything better to say. “What’s going on?”

“They think I killed the girl. Harry was here when they came for me. She’s not here now. I don’t think she’s talking to me. They told her why they were bringing me in. I think she called Harvey to find out what was going on after they took me in.”

“So where’s Harry now?”

“I don’t know. I think she’s annoyed at me. I can understand it.”

He sounded sane. I wondered if this was a good time to tell him what I knew or if he’d think I’d been holding back. I couldn’t stand accusations at this point. I decided to let him tell his own story.

“Yep, she probably is. She only leaves yours when you’ve had a fight.”

“How come? I didn’t do anything. She shouldn’t have left. I got back and there was no-one here.”

“How come she’s annoyed with you Joe? What happened?”

“I hit a girl once. I don’t know why she’d be annoyed about that.”

“You hit a girl?”

There was silence on the phone for a while. “Yeah. I hit a girl. I mean if they want equality you think they’d take a punch as well as a guy, but it turns out this girl couldn’t take a punch. I broke her jaw.”

“And you never told Harry this?”

“I didn’t see any reason to.”

“Why did the police pull you in Joe?”

He sighed. “I knew the girl.”

“The girl you punched?”

“No, the girl who died.”

“And Harry found out?”

“The cops must have told her about it. There was a note, for fuck’s sake. We’ve been going out with each other for years and she left a note.”

“What did the note say?”

“Said she doesn’t want anything to do with me anymore. Why is she so annoyed?”

“I think that’s the point. You lied to her.”

“For fuck’s sake. I didn’t lie, I just didn’t tell the truth. She’s annoyed for no reason. Fucking hell, it’s not like I raped her dog or anything.” As an afterthought he added, “or forgot her birthday.”

“You lied to her.”

“Where’s she going to go? It’s not like she’s got a job or anything. She can’t just leave me.

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