Becoming Nancy by Terry Ronald

Author:Terry Ronald
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781407084077
Publisher: Transworld

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‘Actually,’ Maxie says, snapping me back to here and now, ‘I really wanna talk to you about something, so maybe we should have our Scotch eggs later – do you mind?’

He is even more jittery now.

‘I thought you were starving,’ I say.

‘This is more important,’ he says gravely. ‘Can we go up to your room?’

It’s evidently a day for folk feeling the need to inundate me with imperative topics: first Frances’ revelation about Squirrel and now this – whatever this is.

‘OK then.’

Maxie looks nigh-on angelic sitting on my bed beneath my poster of a pouting Kate Bush, his hands tidily in his lap and his head down. I wonder what the matter is with him all of a sudden – he was quite perky when he arrived and now he’s gone all sombre and quiet.

‘What’s up?’ I say, popping a bit of Elvis Costello, loud, on the stereo to lighten the mood.

‘Come and sit over here,’ he says. ‘I don’t want to have to shout.’

I stroll over and sit next to him on the bed, my heart beating about three times its normal speed, and Maxie says, ‘I was wondering what you thought … about what happened.’

Does he mean what I think he means?

‘What happened?’ I say.

‘Yeah,’ he says. ‘At Moira’s last week. You’ve not mentioned it.’

‘You’ve not mentioned it either,’ I say, scandalized.

‘You’ve not,’ he insists. ‘I didn’t know what to say, did I?’

‘And I should have?’ I laugh. ‘It’s not something I do every day, ye know. I thought you might be embarrassed, so I kept it buttoned.’

Maxie smiles.

‘Well, you’ve been all lovey-dovey with me ever since – don’t think I’ve not twigged that, David Starr.’

I’m mortified.

‘I have bastard well not been all lovey-dovey with you, I just—’

But he stops me in my tracks.

‘Do you wanna have another crack?’ he says. ‘Do it again?’

‘Do what again?’

‘The fucking Highland fling,’ he laughs. ‘What do you think?’

Then he puts his hand between my thighs, just as Elvis Costello’s ‘Pump It Up’ is dwindling to nothing.

‘I want to know if I liked it as much as I think I did,’ Maxie says. ‘Have you thought about it much?’

I can tell now he’s quite aroused.

‘Some,’ I whisper.

‘When you’re havin’ a wank?’

Oh, I say!

‘Maybe.’

‘I have,’ he says. ‘I’ve tried not to, but then when I’m kind of halfway through, my mind just goes there even though I try not to let it. I think about you touching me … like you did … and I think about what else we could …’

Maxie starts to undo my belt, and when it’s loose I slowly stand up and brazenly let my trousers fall. He follows suit, unbuckling his belt and stepping right out of his trousers.

‘Where?’ he says. ‘On the bed?’

‘No, on the beanbag,’ I say, shuffling over towards it with my trousers around my knees and guiding him along with me.

Maxie falls back on to the oversized flowery cushion, and I kick off my school trousers and move towards him. I can

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