The Shock Of The Fall (Special Edition) - Plot & Excerpts
We didn’t have proper furniture, so we placed our single mattresses side by side on the bedroom floor, and sat on them. We took the light bulb from the hall because it was the only one the previous tenants had left behind. And I plugged my old desk lamp in the kitchen, so we could see to cook. We ate oven chips with baked beans and lots of tomato ketchup, and shared a 3-litre bottle of cider. I’ve made it sound shit. It wasn’t. It was perfect. The second evening, we both had to work. So at three o’clock in the morning we rode our bikes to our bench beside the tree and watched night turn to twilight. Jacob talked about crepuscular animals. It was a new word he’d learnt, and he was showing off. He said that him and me were crepuscular because we mostly lived in dusk and dawn. He gets excited by the unlikeliest things. It can make people feel uncomfortable. Jacob is one of those people who other people share whispered comments about.
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