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All the voices

the neediness of these people. It was all so vile and puke making. And then along came Steven. Steven was an old friend of Aggie’s. They’d spent two years in the same rowing team when they were teens and that kind of experience can draw people together and keep them together. I know it can also drive people apart because when a kid moves on from kid things they want to forget the entire package, but it can go either way. And in the case of Aggie and Steven it bound them. Aggie thought of Steven as her best friend. They could be in fits of laughter together over very little, or even over nothing at all, at least as far as I could see. Well, along with the arrival of Steven,

came the first dissent. Because Steven actually seemed to like me which was disconcerting to everyone¸ me included. And Aggie being Aggie fell in with this as Steven was her mate. This de- stabilised Glea and Flake and they started having an affair which kind of left Noisy out in the cold as far as the couples- thing went so he started siding with me over every little thing that cropped up. This shift in human relations nearly knocked me off my feet as you might imagine, my legs always being a little on the unreliable side for obvious reasons. I was left feeling disoriented and not a little pissed off. I mean, if I was no longer in any danger was there any point in leaving the house after all? The

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