Kiera Lynch is tired, starting a new job at Biddies so she can send her sister to Tommen, desperately trying to keep Joey of drugs, and parenting the rest of her siblings she's falling apart.
Johnny has never liked a girl, really liked a girl, but t...
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Kiera Lynch
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Johnny Kavanagh
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Kiera & Johnny
"I will haunt you."
"Promise it."
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I walked to work with my hands shoved deep into my jacket pockets and my head down. Biddie's squatted at the end of the street, all fogged windows and old brick. Last week I'd managed to bag a job there and even after a few shifts, it still didn't feel real.
Aoife had done my makeup that morning, humming under her breath while she leaned over me. She'd laughed when she finished and declared, "There. Eighteen if I've ever seen it."
You had to be eighteen to pull a pint which meant I had to look eighteen to get the job. She'd made me look older somehow, braver, maybe. Like someone who knew what she was doing.
