Life, Death and Gold Leather Trousers by Fiona Foden

Author:Fiona Foden [Foden, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2014-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

I don’t see much of Riley at school on Monday. Everyone’s gathered in groups at break and lunchtime, laughing about stuff that happened on Saturday, probably going over every tiny detail of the beach party I couldn’t go to because I was being held hostage in the Ship Inn. “So how was the rest of your carnival day?” Riley asks as we head down to Niall’s together.

I exhale loudly. “Mum had arranged for us to meet her new man…”

“She’s met someone already?”

“Sort of looks like it. I don’t know if it’s serious or anything – I mean, Mum tends to jump into things without thinking, you know? Like the day she walked out of her job. Anyway, we had to sit through this terrible meal and watch him slurping his beer and slurping all over Mum…” I wince at the image of Ed in his too-tight T-shirt.

Riley smiles sympathetically. “She’s probably just lonely,” he suggests. “My dad went out with a couple of women after Mum left, but neither of them seemed keen to hang out with a hairy old hippie like him.”

I laugh, even though I can’t imagine being so lonely that I’d want anything to do with a pumped-up grunter like Ed. “So what did you do the rest of Carnival Day?” I ask as Niall’s house comes into view.

“Oh, just hung out with Dad and some others,” he says.

“Like … Sophie?” I blurt out.

He turns and gives me a quizzical look. “Yeah, why?”

“I, um, just wondered,” I say with an exaggerated shrug.

Riley looks at me, and my cheeks flush hotly. “It was just a beach party, Clover,” he says with a laugh. “You should’ve come.”

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