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Highers, why?”
    “What’s Highers?”
    What? Now he’s asking about Highers?
    “Scottish A level exams. He’s bright.”
    “If he was that bright he’d know you’re too young for him to be bothering with.”
    She couldn’t believe what she was hearing.
    “Dad, it’s his sister I’m friends with. Well, I guess I’m friends with him too, but that’s because of Leira, she introduced us; she was really great. Without her I’d be the nerd sitting in the corner; Billy no-mates and all that. Now, I’ve got people I can say hi to and spend time with. Leira has friends of all ages. It’s not such a big school, so everyone hangs out together.” She hoped that would help him understand, after all he’d been with her when she’d had a tour before starting, but it only made it worse.
    Her dad slammed the glass salad bowl down onto the table so hard that it was a wonder it didn’t shatter. As it was, some of the lettuce and tomatoes flew over the edge and landed on the floor; pity they didn’t have a dog.
    ‘Or a leopard?’
    Where the heck did that come from?
    “You think that makes it all right, ‘She has friends of all ages’,” he parroted. “I suppose her parents think it’s fine if their daughter is messing around with a boy a lot older? He’s too old to want you just as a friend.”
    A lot older? It’s only two years! Okay, maybe two years is a lot at our age, but for heaven’s sake, it isn’t like he’s going to see me as anything other than his sisters mate… more’s the pity.
    Rach realized then that she’d better not mention Donny fancying Leira; or Andy and Alison…
    Her dad wasn’t finished though. She loved him, but boy could he get over protective!
    What on earth will he be like when he finds out I’ve ‘done the deed’? Not that I have, but one day . . .
    “A seventeen-year old sniffing around a fifteen-year old is decidedly dodgy. You’re to have nothing to do with him. Do you understand?” He was shaking.
    Rach just stared at him; she knew her mouth must be open. Did men go through the change? Was that what was wrong? After all forty was supposed to be a dangerous age and her dad was forty-two…
    “But, Da-ad.”
    Gah, now I’m whining, I hate that.
    “But Dad nothing, you will not see that boy! I’d prefer you to have nothing to do with his sister either, but I suppose that’s not possible.”
    She was indignant. “No, it isn’t. We’re in the same class, and I like her. I like Brios as well. For God’s sake, Dad; he’s just a boy at school.”
    “No, he isn’t. He’s a man dressed as a boy—or something. Seventeen-year old boys are men with hormones in overdrive. Hell, I might be getting on, but I can remem…” his voice trailed off, and he shook his head.
    Hmm, too much information; yup Dad, don’t go there.
    “I mean this Rach. Do you understand me? You won’t speak to him. I want your word on that. Oh, and don’t blaspheme.”
    He was glaring at her; so unusual from his normally supportive dad role.
    What on earth made him go off like that? Anyway, he swore as well! Though maybe now isn’t the time to point that out to him.
    “Waiting.”
    “Okay, okay. I’ll ignore him.” She crossed her fingers.
    A bit, she added silently, and then jumped. She could have sworn she heard Brios’ voice saying, ‘Thank you.’
    Nah, must have been Dad.
    “I won’t speak to him Dad, even though that will make me seem really rude and stuck-up. I’m new here don’t forget, and a lot of the girls in my class think he’s really cool. They were dead envious when he shook my hand, and introduced himself.”
    Oh heck, now I’ve done it. Here’s dad not happy about him at all for some reason, and I’m busy telling him he made a point of coming over to introduce himself. I must start thinking before I open my big mouth and put my feet in it.
    Her dad’s face looked like thunder. “I was sitting with his sister at the time,” she said hastily, “he’d come to