บท 44: Ex.

"Her name was Violet, I met her in the last year of school." Jake begins, his mouth fixed in a thin line.

"She was more than a fling, I really liked her, you know? I'd only ever sleep with girls before her," he coughs awkwardly, glancing at me to watch my reaction. I give him a small smile and motion for him to continue.

"She'd just moved from down south. This one guy was pestering her all the time, he wouldn't leave her alone. So I stepped in, scared him away and ever since then, we just clicked. We were together for a couple of months, I took her home one day to show her off to Mum. She was the only girl before you who'd met Mum and Aunty Myra. . . Mum didn't like her at all."

"Why not?" I ask him.

"Mum just didn't like her from the very first day of meeting her. I think she knew what she was really like, even before I did. Violet got along with Ivory too. . . and Tobias." He says bitterly, jaw clenching with frustration.