7 FRIDAYLily woke up on time and feeling far happier than usual, which she put down to not having had to deal with a crappy boyfriend the night before. All right, Deo had pissed her off, but she had dealt with that and the way that she had dealt with it left him free to pick up a girl, but wasn’t he able to do that six days a week anyway? She would never know, just like he didn’t know about her ‘others’, although she counted them as necessary to her survival. Deo was the only one she had, who was about her age and she didn’t want to lose him.
He was the nearest thing to a real boyfriend that she had ever had. She had never had a boyfriend in the village, although perhaps not because they were frightened of her, but maybe because she gave off some kind of repellent like a mosquito coil. In
