Student by David Belbin

Author:David Belbin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781907869679
Publisher: Five Leaves
Published: 2012-09-23T16:00:00+00:00

Aidan’s mum and step-dad are surprised to see me. I haven’t phoned to say I’m coming, because Aidan will still be asleep.

‘He’s still out,’ Linda says. ‘Are you early?’

‘Out? It’s only noon.’

‘He’s gone to church with Anna,’ she says, cheerfully. ‘It’s the second time.’

‘Wow!’ Aidan’s parents are Church of England which, according to my Irish-Catholic mother, makes them practically atheists. But Aidan isn’t a practising Christian. We’ve had the secular conversation, the one where you establish common ground, that God doesn’t exist and a lot of the world’s troubles are caused by the misguided primitives who insist on believing in him yet won’t tolerate those who don’t believe in their own, bigoted way.

‘He’s come out of himself a bit,’ says Keith. ‘I managed to get him a job.’

‘What kind of job?’

‘Trainee Financial Adviser.’

Again, all I can think of to say is ‘wow’. At university, Aidan did Philosophy and Psychology. He told me he wanted to be a don, or a poet. Or both. Not an accountant.

‘Here he is now,’ Linda says. ‘Aidan, look who’s here!’

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