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Chapter 12
The Good Apples
“Where do you find good men?” asks KristalClear.
“Where do you find good apples?” replies Conning.
“Not apples! Men!”
“Where do you find good apples is something my grandad says,” explains Conning, “he’s a good man! Every year we go back to Mannin to visit family, and grandad has some brilliant ways of explaining things.”
Kayt joins in, “but I thought you’d found a good man? Haven’t you told NutJob yet? It’s obvious to everyone. When are you two going to start going out together?”
“Not me!” says KristalClear, “I’m talking about CandiCrush, she’s 33 years old and she’s still single. But what’s this thing with the apples?”
Before Conning can answer, Kayt butts in again.
“She’s in the Garisson,” says Kayt bluntly, “it’s full of men!”
Kayt likes to dominate love life conversations like this one. If she’s given half a chance, Kayt dominates all conversations, but especially ones about dreamy relationships.
Kayt and Conning are the best of friends. They’re Manx descendants and they’ve made a point of keeping up with their own native language. They’re also a singing partnership known as The Space Girls, because each of them repeatedly uses the catch phrase “don’t invade my personal space”.
Especially where boys are involved!
They claim that they don’t want to seek out romance just yet, but they’re excited to learn all they can from KristalClear. If any of the girls was going to find a proper, stable boyfriend, they wouldn’t have imagined that KristalClear would be first! She’s normal, unassuming, polite, and intelligent.
How she clicked with NutJob they just don’t know!
And anyway, they think NutJob’s not quite normal.
In The Space Girls it’s quietly acknowledged that Kayt is the better singer and dancer and that Conning is the brainy one.
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