The Business by Martina Cole

Author:Martina Cole [Cole, Martina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2008-10-15T23:00:00+00:00

‘Basil, will you fuck off!’

He was laughing loudly at her anger, and she knew that he was not going to stop, no matter what she said, or how angry she became. And she could get really angry, she was even capable of frightening him when her anger finally became unmanageable. Basil sat on the edge of his desk, and looking at her seriously now, he said quietly and without any animosity, ‘I know you don’t like me mentioning this, but I feel that I have to, Mel. You are on the needle much more than is safe for you. Than is safe for anyone on the stitch as such. You are a skaghead, and that breaks my fucking heart. You are useless to me out of your box and you know that, darling. Just try and see the massive error of your ways. Listen to my advice, I am trying to help you.’

Imelda was not even smiling at him now, in fact she was outraged by his bare-faced cheek. He was a massive fucking dealer, and he relied on people like her for his livelihood. She paid his bills, and saw to it that he had a few quid on the outside.

But she also understood that it was much easier for people like him if they didn’t personally know the people who bought his merchandise. That he actually tried to make sure that they were not in any way personally involved with him. She had tried to ensure that he did not feel any kind of responsibility for plying his trade to her and her friends. But he was still more than prepared to give his bad opinion of Mel and her lifestyle without a second’s thought to the part he played in it. Now he was suddenly trying to tell her that she was a fool for her lifestyle, was no more than a mug for taking drugs. Drugs he had been providing for her on a regular basis. She was genuinely angry with him, at his hypocrisy.

This came across in her voice, and her physical demeanour. ‘It’s none of your business what I do or don’t do, OK? Can you take that on board? Can you fucking keep your big conk out of my private business? Do you think you could manage that much, eh?’ The sarcasm was evident to anyone who could hear them as they argued.

‘Oh stop it, Mel, you are looking really rough lately, and you know it as well as I do. Now, I don’t give a toss what anyone does in their spare time, but your fucking habit is affecting your work, and that means, Mel, that it has become my personal business. You are now no more than a fucking junkie in my eyes. You are the equivalent of one of those fucking idiots you see sleeping on benches. Basically that means you are on my personal shit list. Once I have to think about you as a real person, Mel, you are finished.

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