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Dave pushed the door open with the flat
of his back. It swang right open and he found himself heaved against
door-frame, panting.\
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Suddenly whatever was going on in the bedroom opposite the kitchen
stopped, and two half dressed teens rolled out into an excuse of a
hallway.\
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"Shit, Dave!"\
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The red on Dave's stained jumper was running down off the door onto the
carpet. He rolled his face from off his shoulder towards the guy with
his girlfriend.\
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He was moving. One heavy shoe after the other, he stumbled towards the
laundry.\
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"Dave, I'm sorry - I didn't mean to-" Ross was choking now, he could
barely make out Dave's profile with the front curtains drawn.\
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Bleeding through the hand on his ribs, David put a sprawled palm before
the two faces to his left:\
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"Could not - give less - of a - fahhk." The corners of his mouth
twitched for a split second at an accidental pun - but now the laundry
was all he wanted.\
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The laundry door now closed, the sordid pair heard a dull thud against
the tiles, and all the bottles in the cabinet behind the mirror spill
all over its damp hillside. They'd been in there, too.\
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The water ran, and almost every painful movement involved in undoing the
zip on Dave's jumper could be heard. When the carpet outside the laundry
started becoming wet the door was opened.\
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And there was David, dead on the laundry floor.