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All the voices

and get them off your back. Noisy in particular came to mind, because I knew for sure Noisy had never liked me. It had always been a mammoth task keeping him at bay and Glea was one of the reasons for his hostility. In the days when I’d first moved in there Glea had liked me a lot and Noisy had liked Glea a lot, hence the jealousy angle. And Aggie had liked me because Glea liked me and Blake didn’t move in till the week after I did so he wasn’t a factor, and Noisy had to sort of pretend he didn’t mind me or he’d have looked a saddo in front of Glea. Blake joined the house, as I say, a week later, and because of the way things were at the time he was taken in by appearances and liked me too, no problem. Until

he got to know me, or thought he got to know me, and started to revise his opinion. Then, over the next few months Noisy and Flake kind of reconstructed a new bad-me figure between the two of them, and when Glea saw me with a girl one night and knew she wasn’t getting anywhere she was miffed and readily joined in. And Aggie being Aggie followed suit. And amazingly, without anything much being said, or at least I don’t see what could have been said as I hadn’t actually done anything that you could put a finger on, I became house victim. They started off by giving me funny looks whenever I came into a room and when any little thing went

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