Lucy Foley

Seeing Charlie again reminds me of how I used to moon about after him.

The vacant, sightless
eyes, gleaming in the beam. They glimpse a half-open mouth, the tongue protruding slightly, somehow obscene. And at the sternum a stain of dark red blood.

‘Oh fuck,’ Femi says. ‘Oh fuck … it’s Will.’

And then, for my little brother, I stab him. In his heart.

would Will keep a friend like Johnno around simply because of a shared past? Unless that past has some sort of hold over him.

Will has never liked getting his hands that dirty.

I know the most about him.

threw a party at the V&A museum, for The Download. I was just a plus-one: I had come along with a friend. Anyway, my friend had to leave the party and I was left behind. I was just deciding whether to leave myself. So it was a total spur-of-the-moment decision, to go back inside.

But how dare you?’

– I’ve always liked that, as I’ve said, that unawareness in a woman, that insecurity.

was all a bit last minute, coming here. Ben didn’t sound that thrilled when I called him earlier and told him I was on my way. True, I didn’t give him much