Golden Boy: A Novel by Abigail Tarttelin

Author:Abigail Tarttelin [Tarttelin, Abigail]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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ISBN: 9781476705804
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2013-05-20T23:00:00+00:00

Sylvie

‘What does he mean?’ I turn to Emma as soon as we’re in the IT room. We sit down at a row of computers and we all log on.

‘I saw him buying a pregnancy test on Saturday,’ she says immediately, as if the info has been pressing against her lips, trying to escape. ‘I told him that if he just up and left you after he’d like, got you in trouble, then I wouldn’t let him get away with it.’ She lowers her voice. ‘Only I, like, totally knew he was cheating on you. He’s a slut. He said it wasn’t for you. That’s why I asked you on the field whether you had done it or not. And then when you were like “no”, then I knew he was. He’s a total arrogant cock, Sylvie, and he doesn’t deserve you.’

Frozen, my mouth open, I watch her face for a moment, not knowing what to say. ‘Well . . .’ I say, finally, the air escaping over my teeth. ‘I never said we didn’t do it.’ I look down at my keyboard. My eyes are misting up.

Don’t believe her, I say to myself, remembering what Max said.

‘Sylvie,’ she says, pityingly. ‘He bought a pregnancy test.’

‘Emma, this is really, really important, OK? This isn’t the kind of thing you lie about.’

‘I’m not lying!’ she hisses. ‘I would never do that to you.’

‘Look me in the eye,’ I say. ‘Do you swear on your mum’s life that you saw Max buying a pregnancy test?’

‘Sylves, I swear on my mum’s life.’ She holds three fingers up and puts her hand on her heart, like a frigging Brownie. ‘I sold that kid a pregnancy test. I handed it to him in a plastic bag and he gave me money for it.’

We hold each other’s look as water fills my eyes.

‘I swear to you,’ she whispers. ‘Oh, Sylves!’ Emma suddenly, dramatically exclaims, and hugs me.

‘Get off!’ I splutter.

Fay leans in. ‘Don’t presume anything, Sylvie. He could have been buying it for a friend.’

‘Does everybody know?’ I hiss, looking at Emma.

‘I was asking people because I didn’t know what to do with this crucial information,’ stresses Emma. ‘And like, yeah, right!’ She turns to Fay. ‘That’s so ridic. Who would ask Max Walker to do that, unless he’d potentially knocked them up?’

I think, biting the tip of my nail off. I almost gag on the black nail varnish. ‘When did you see him buy the test?’

‘Saturday morning,’ Emma says immediately.

‘Fuck.’ My mouth falls wide open and I say instantly, without thinking, ‘He was with me Friday night.’

‘Maybe he got a text from someone he’d been with in the last few weeks.’ Emma puts her arm around my shoulder. ‘I can’t believe he did that to you.’

I turn away and log into Facebook aimlessly, trying to hold back tears.

It’s just a mistake. He’s going to explain later, I try to reassure myself. He said.

‘I wonder who he did have sex with,’ Emma says, more to the room than me.

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