Turbulence by Paul Gadsby

Author:Paul Gadsby [Gadsby, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fahrenheit Press
Published: 2021-06-05T12:00:00+00:00

‘It’s the quarter final!’ Chris shouted at me.

‘I know it.’

‘Man, you’ve missed, like, half the season.’

‘It’s the business and all, you hear me? I gotta run classes on weekends to meet demand.’

Chris shook his head at me as if I’d just swiped up his wallet from the coffee table there and taken out a tenner.

Scotty and Gar, sitting on the other sofa, didn’t look impressed either.

It was a Friday pizza night at Chris’ place. We mostly met at his as he had the bigger lounge and the best TV. Nothing heavy to the shindig, just kicking back with a few beers, an action movie or a mini FIFA tournament on the Playstation. Plus shooting the shit over Saturday’s game. We’d been going to the football for years. Too many years, tell the truth.

We started going together shortly after we left school, carried on full steam through our twenties, but it was wearing thin now. Between us there’d been two divorces, three children, a short prison stretch, a suspended sentence, a cancer scare, a stint of rehab, a serious car wreck, and a record deal that promised much and delivered fuck all. Too many scars, too many lost battles.

Too much life.

I didn’t know if any of the others felt the same, and I sure as shit wasn’t going to ask, but that’s how I saw it. They were good company, don’t get me wrong, and I’d leaned on them plenty for help over the years, and given it back in spades, but times were different now.

The Friday pizza nights I could handle. But the Saturday footie, the banter and argy bargy – sometimes a little more – with the opposition supporters? Nah, I was ditching it.

But obviously I couldn’t tell them that. I was just phasing it out of my life.

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