Let’s Never Speak of This Again by Megan Williams EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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For Scarlett, April and Thomas
Sticky satay fingers
The dance floor at my cousin’s twenty-first is going off, but I’m trapped in
the corner listening to Aunty Joanna talk about her new ‘zero waste’
lifestyle. She’s telling me how she’s recently discovered this cup that you
keep and, from the way she talks, you’d be forgiven for thinking she’s
single-handedly saving the planet. I imagine saying, It’s a keep-cup,
everyone has one, and walking away. Instead, I say mm-hmm a lot and hope
the conversation dies a natural death soon. But Aunty Joanna has never
considered conversation to be a two-player game, and I’m starting to think
I’ll be stuck here forever.
A waiter finally heads in our direction, and I silently thank the gods I
don’t believe in. ‘Want one?’ he says, shoving a platter between us.
‘Don’t mind if I do,’ says Aunty Joanna, grabbing her fourth chicken
skewer of the evening and reaching towards the pile of undeniably singleuse napkins.
‘What a waste,’ I tutt, and Aunty Joanna acts like she was going for
another skewer all along.
However, I immediately regret opening my big mouth because the band
starts playing ‘Eagle Rock’ and Aunty Joanna clutches my arm with her
sticky satay fingers to emphasise just how much she loves this song. A
couple of guys immediately drop their pants and the rest follow suit. I don’t
know what it is about the song or if it’s just a Brisbane thing, but you play
‘Eagle Rock’ at a party around here and all the guys will drop their pants. I
guarantee it.
Even though their jocks have mostly all seen better days, the guys waddle
around the dance floor, pants at their ankles, with such a lack of selfconsciousness that I’m impressed and concerned in equal measure. Uncle
Dave, who’s usually a good guy but has ignored my ‘help me’ faces all
night, gestures to the semi-naked guys and beelines towards me with a
terrifying glint in his eye. I decide it’s now or never, mumble something to
Aunty Joanna about checking on Toby and make my escape.
I walk outside the bar and find Toby sitting at one of the tables with a
bunch of other thirteen year olds. They’re huddled around a phone,
watching the Wallabies play the All Blacks.
Hanging out with my younger
brother is not my preferred way to spend a Saturday night, but the only
people I know at the party are family, so my options are limited.
But there is another option: a group of guys sitting at the far table. They
look about my age, some a bit older. The game is playing on someone’s
phone there too, but the phone is propped against a drink at the side of the
table, more of a background thing than the main event. I watch them for a
while. They look like they’re having fun.
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