A Tiger in Eden by Chris Flynn

Author:Chris Flynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, adventure
ISBN: 9781921921308
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2012-02-27T05:00:00+00:00

10

That was about it between me and the Frenchman. Sure he said I was having a meltdown and I says, aye well it’s about time, I mean it’s not like I burst into tears or nothing. I know I keep saying how what I done’s going to fuck me up but it’s not that bad, like yer man Sigmund Freud said psychotherapy works on every cunt except the Irish who don’t seem to need it. I mean I was all right I could still function and go about my business and have a laugh and that, I just needed to have a good look at myself and square everything away in my head so’s I could get on with things and maybe work out what the fuck I was going to do with myself.

I could see the years stretching out ahead and there wasn’t much future for an aul Orangeman thug outside of his natural environment so to speak. I had the chance to leave all that shite behind and I was only now realising after all this time that I’d sort of fallen into that dead young or was pushed whatever way you want to look at it but I could do anything I wanted within reason, I wasn’t stupid or nothing I mean no genius either but I wasn’t a lost cause yet, that’s what I’m saying.

That’s what I tried to tell Olly, I think he understood but he wasn’t ready to be going down that road himself just yet sure he had the spirit of adventure or whatever in him.

The last I seen of him was when he jumped on a bus for the Cambodia, he heard it was even cheaper over there and not ruined yet by tourists like the Thailand was. He didn’t know what he was going to do other than try to shag loads of wee Khmer girls and he said cheerio to me in the middle of a busy street it was about eight o’clock at night and dead warm, he was all cheerful to be embarking on another adventure but I was a wee bit cut up though I didn’t show it.

He gave me a big hug and says, T’inquiète pas Billy, l’avenir te trouvera! I knew the first part was don’t worry Billy but the rest was a bit beyond me so I shouts what was that as he was clambering on the bus with his aul filthy rucksack over one shoulder. He disappeared for a minute getting himself a seat I suppose and then just as the bus goes to pull away he leans out the door and gives me a wave laughing like a madman, the future will find you, he shouts, pumping his fist in the air and whooping and then he was gone.

Even though he was a bit of a cunt I liked our Olly and I was sorry I couldn’t be more fun for him, he was one of those lads out there doing his own thing and not worrying about tomorrow or the next day sure you have to admire that.

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