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Anyway, the nub and the gist is that the Ace Gang are useless and don’t know anything more than I do. It seems they all watched me run off like a loon (to catch my train) and then lolloped home. Useless.

However, I decided to forgive them. They are, after all, my besties.

And if I don’t forgive them I will never find out anything. And also never go out again and stay in my house with my parents. So, grasping the bull by its whatsits, I said to the gang, “In order to make a full and frank decision boyfriendwise, I have to know the intentions of the prospective snoggees.”

Ellen said, “Er, what are they? I mean who, what is, like, a snoggee?”

“Ellen, keep up, the prospeccy snoggees are Masimo and Robbie. Masimo said that he was single and free for me, but on the other hand did not come running after me and stop me getting on my train. And Robbie only had time to say hello and then not long after went off with Wet Lindsay. Soooo, did Robbie come to the gig to see me, or does he just want to be friends with me? Why has he come home?”

Rosie said, “Someone must go underground and subtly find out what Robbie’s intentions are. Shall I ask Sven? He could wear his camouflage flares.”

I said, “No.”

Jools said, “What about asking Dave the Laugh to find out?”

Ellen nearly fell over with pleasure. “Oh, yes, well, I mean, I could, well, maybe I could, like, go with him or something. Be, like, his assistant? But maybe that would be, like, too forward or something. What do you think… or something?”

I said, “No, Ellen, it has to be this year, really.”

Jas had gone off into Jasland. She was fiddling with her fringe and I could tell she had Tom and voles on her mind.

I said, “There is someone here, isn’t there, who knows Robbie’s brother quite well, shall we say, and who could use subtlety and casualosity to find out stuff? Isn’t there, Jas?”

Jas looked up like a dog when she heard her own name. “What do you mean? What do you want me to do?”

“I want you to find out about Robbie by asking Tom a few casual questions.”

Jas said, “Oh, OK. Can we go now?”

“The key word here, Jas, is ‘casualosity’. Casualosity. Can you say that, Jas?”

Jas got into her huffmobile. “I know how to be casual, Georgia.”

“Wrong.”