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The led to his feet and approached theirl

‘Get-!’

David roughly interposed his own body causing theto keep his balance

‘Shut up and sit down, you! Not another word! Got it?’

His practised baleful look had the intended effect and theunsuccessfully not to look daunted David was just about to take the girl inside when a woered out of the house She was dressed in torn, slatternly garb, and she was not that arish gobs of cheap makeup and she was quite obviously dead drunk- or worse

Without a word to David or Monica, apparently too out of it to fully register their presence, the woated her way towards Monica’s stepfather and collapsed into his lap

‘Got‘ny ust when she kissed the li back in the shadows of the house’s interior; a fellow he recognised as one of the drug-dealers who hung about his school At the sight of hi in David snapped