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Ness threw herself into the wall-seat opposite
Peter.\
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"Hey - what's up?"\
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"Sorry - just, fuck - the traffic's terrible."\
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A waitress moved to their table but Ness waved her away in
exasperation.\
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"Not getting anything?"\
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"I can't."\
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"Why?"\
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"I heard Blue Monday on Rage, it freaked me out."\
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"Blue Monday?"\
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"It's ominous! Doesn't it just murder your mind?" Vanessa rocked
agigatedly around on her seat.\
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Peter began to take a great interest in his glass of water.\
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"What?"\
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"Its nothing, its - nothing."\
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"What is it? What? Peter. Look Peter spit it out or I'm going to go
fucking mental. What the fuck is wrong?"\
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"I can't handle Bec anymore, Vanessa, I'm too jealous. I can't do it, I
just see her and Steve together at work, on the weekend when we met him
walking, I'm killing myself holding this rage in - I confront her about
it and she denies it, but I'm going insane!"\
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"Peter." Ness touched her temples with both hands and then extended her
palms upwards on the table in one quick motion. "Peter is it that bad?
Have you really got it that bad?"\
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"I can't help it."\
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"Like hell you can't, you're a twelve-year-old who grew a beard - just
calm down, alright? You and I both know Bec, and she's not cheating on
you, she's just got a friend at work."\
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"But she's just so happy all the time without me, she doesn't need me."\
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"Well then she probably doesn't, Peter - at the very most not in the
ways you like attention."\
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Peter looked away, staring at the ground, restaurant door, kitchen.\
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"I've just gotta hold it together I guess."\
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"Look, I'm not normally inclined to saying such things, but you don't
honestly expect this to last forever, do you?"\
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"No."\
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"But you do Peter. You do, and it kills you."\
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"Just shut up, okay."\
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"You're the problem. I'm telling you now. Nothing's been holding you and
Bec together these past months and she's in the process of moving on
without you, at the very least, exploring the possibility of some
distance from you."\
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"God I'm so worried. It just feels like everything's okay when she's
nice to me, I just don't understand."\
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"Just don't go off and do anything stupid. I know what you're like."\
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"I hate myself."\
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"Fuckssake. You know, not everything's about you, Peter. You know I have
no money, and yet I must pay for my brother's bail. That's your problem
Peter, you're self-obsessed and quickly becoming a shallow loser. Now
let us never talk of Bec again unless its absolutely urgent. Now buy me
lunch and say three Hail Maries to appease me."\
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Peter's eyes moved waterily to look at Vanessa. He couldn't help but
feel worse for contemplating that Vanessa might only be with him for a
free lunch, but he knew what her answer to that would be - something
about a soup kitchen, no doubt.\
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"Buck the fuck up, okay? You're so pathetic, this isn't the end of the
world." Vanessa rolled her eyes behind her menu.
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