Kapitel 15: Chapter 15

Riley

accidentally dropped his keys as they approached the house where his flat was.

They both scrabbled among fallen leaves on the wide pavement, snickering, until

they found them again. Curtis followed him up a short flight of steps to a

large and smartly painted front door. Riley kept trying to hug him, and Curtis

kept trying to kiss him at the same time, so Curtis didn’t notice much about

the building until they stumbled into the lobby. He barely registered that there

were only two flats off the hall, unlike his own house where there were at

least four flats on each storey.

But

when Riley opened his own front entrance, Curtis paused in the doorway, looking

down a long, thickly carpeted hallway. “Christ almighty!”

“What

is it?” Riley turned to face him. He was opening one of the doors off the

corridor that presumably led into the living room.

“It’s

huge. It’s a fucking palace compared to our place.”

For