One of the Boys by Jayne Cowie

Author:Jayne Cowie [Cowie, Jayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2023-07-11T00:00:00+00:00

That got a response.

Yep

We’ve been going out for the last six months, Jack typed, then deleted it.

We’re kind of a thing. He deleted that, too.

She’s

He exited the app as Ginny came over with a bag in her hand. “I’m done,” she said. “Thanks, Jack.”

“No problem.”

A group of boys had gathered outside the shop, and they jeered at Ginny as she and Jack left. None of them were in school uniforms. Jack knew who they were immediately, or rather, he knew what they were. “Piss off,” Jack shouted at them. He squeezed Ginny’s hand. You’re all right, he wanted to tell her. You’re safe with me.

They shouted back and flipped him off. He took out his phone and snapped a picture of the boys before uploading it to the app everyone used to report antisocial behavior. They’d get moved on soon enough.

The test had fixed a lot, but it hadn’t fixed everything. At least everyone knew who the dangerous boys were now, and you could mostly avoid them. His school didn’t admit boys with a positive test. Other places were allowed to refuse them entry, too, like shops and gyms and bars. Jack knew for a fact that all his friends were negative. But M+ boys clung on anyway, like scum at the edge of a lake.

It made him think of Simon. Was he scum? He certainly looked like an M+ boy, with his scruffy clothes and that bruise on his face. And there had been times when he’d acted like one, too. But Jack had never quite been able to bring himself to believe it. And even if it was true, he’d always thought that Simon was different than the boys his parents treated at the clinic, the ones who needed pills to make them act like normal human beings.

But maybe he’d been stupid to think that. Maybe he’d seen what he wanted rather than the truth, because Simon was his friend. He felt suddenly cold. His cousin had a darkness in him. Only a fool would deny that.

Ginny smiled at him as they got in the lift that would take them up to the parking garage. He smiled back, and it settled something inside him. A girl like Ginny would never be interested in someone like Simon. But that didn’t mean Simon wouldn’t be interested in her. Of course he would. She was gorgeous and completely out of his league, and if there was one thing Jack knew about his cousin, it was that he coveted things he couldn’t have.

Ginny offered to pay when they got to the ticket machine, but Jack didn’t let her. He checked his phone again before he got in the car. He had more messages from Simon, though none of them were about Ginny.

Mom is having an argument w yr cleaner

Whats yr xbox password

I’ll be glad when this is over and I’ve got my result

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