“At times like this, I’ve never been so happy to be gay in my goddamn life – – I do have a wand on me but I do have a few words that you’re gonna hear first,” Mary squared her shoulders, making sure to stare daggers into Kiran’s eyes. “I don’t have a f u c k i n g clue what is going on, but you and Lance need to stop treating Reggie like shit. Yeah, BOTH of you have been equally shitty to her and mate, it’s downright u g l y. I don’t know whatever beef if going on between you and Lance is making you both be a ton of shitty dicks towards Reg, but it stops now. Yeah?? ”
“Mary, mate...” A heavy drop of the shoulders, Kiran’s head dropped into his palm as he rubbed his forehead wearily. “Listen, yeah, you know I rate you bares and all, and I am proper grateful my day one gal’s got a... mate? Like you, but like you said, you don’t know what’s going on, init? So, can I just say as a mate, yeah, please just stay out of it, man.” Mary’s confrontation came entirely as a surprise, and Kiran thought it to be rather unwarranted. He wasn’t quite sure what he and Lance had done to deserve such an accusation, but he wasn’t going to challenge it for the sake of his own frustration, uncharacteristically. It wasn’t worth the demise of another friendship. “In an ideal world, yeah, manz would not be a wasteman, but it ain’t an ideal world, Mazza, and manz acts like a wasteman sometimes.” He threw his hands up in the air before she could correct him. “More than sometimes. So, brothers fight, init. It ain’t the first fight we’ve ever had, and it ain’t the last. And, to be honest, mate, this is such a minor ting,” Kiran lied. He couldn’t remember the last time he and Lance had tension that wasn’t solved in the space of ten minutes with a hug or a punch. “Reggie’s got every right to be upset, cos she’s our sister, you get me. But, if everyone’s mates and their mates and their fucking grandmas start getting involved then this minor ting will get so clapped and longed out, fam. I get where you’re coming from, Mazza, but just... leave it to us to fix, yeah?”








