Small World by Matt Beaumont

Author:Matt Beaumont
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781407033396
Publisher: Transworld

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Michele: I’m at my bedroom window looking at the cop car six floors down. It’s been there since I got home. What do they think? That Carlton would be mental enough to come here? Or maybe they think I’d go to him. Like I would, even if I knew where he’d gone. They’ve got a helicopter, one of those ones with a searchlight, looking for him. It’s nearly midnight and it must be keeping the whole of Wood Green awake. But I wouldn’t be able to sleep even if it wasn’t buzzing around. Jesus, Carlton, what the fuck have you done?

I’m crying now. I have been on and off since I got home. I kept it together back at Carlton’s flat though. Loads more cops turned up and they ripped the place apart. His mum was hysterical. This older cop took me into the tiny kitchen. I think he’s the one in charge. I saw him when I was at the police station on Tuesday. He didn’t talk to me then, but he did tonight. He asked me loads of questions. How long had I known Carlton, was he my boyfriend, where had we been all afternoon, how long had he known Kerry, how did they get on, did they have a ‘relationship’?

‘What’s that supposed to mean?’ I asked. ‘Like were they doing it or something?’

‘If that’s how you choose to characterize it,’ he said.

‘No, they didn’t have a relationship,’ I told him. ‘And he didn’t kill her, right? That’s mad.’

The cop didn’t say anything to that.

‘Anyway, you’ve already got the bloke who did it, haven’t you?’ I said.

‘We’re ruling nothing out at this stage,’ he said.

‘You’ve let him go, haven’t you?’ I said. ‘He killed Kerry and you’ve fucking let him go!’

He didn’t say anything to that either.

So they’ve let the sick bastard go, then. That is more fucking scary than I ever want to think about. I look at the cop car. The door opens and a cop gets out. He looks up at my window. I hate the police, especially after tonight, but with that evil bastard back on the streets I’m kind of glad he’s there now.

Keith: It’s freezing out here, but if I spend another second in the car with Durham, I think I’ll kill her. Seriously, I will not be held responsible for my actions. COP KILLS COP. That’s a snappier headline than BIG BLACK DUDE WANTED FOR RAPE AND MURDER. Less fucking obvious too.

I stamp my feet and rub my hands together. It must be minus two or three, but I do not want to get back in that car. The chopper flies over again. Every cop and his uncle is out looking for him. Maybe he did it, maybe he didn’t. Who fucking knows? But you know what us cops are like. When it comes to keeping society safe, we’re always going to lock up the scary black motherfucker rather than the nice middle-class white guy. That’s not racist. It’s common sense.

That’s the only consolation of having to share a car with Durham.

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