About a Boy
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:54:00
Yes, and she's expressed it.
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Now I have a right to bugger off.
:54:04
Thanks a lot. 'Bye.
:54:06
Wait!
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He's my friend. I invited him.
:54:09
I should be able to tell him when to go home.
:54:11
I haven't told Will to go, Marcus.
:54:14
Suzie's angry and has every right to be,
and she's telling him so.

:54:17
She's right, Marcus.
:54:18
Just leave it, okay?
:54:21
All he did was make up a kid for a couple weeks.
:54:23
God, that's nothing. So what? Who cares?
:54:25
Kids at school do worse than that every day!
:54:27
The point is, Marcus,
Will left school a long time ago.

:54:30
He should've grown out
of making people up by now.

:54:33
-That's for sure.
-It's not fair to gang up on him.

:54:35
He's been better behaved since then.
:54:37
He bought me trainers, he lets me go round
to his house and he knows what kids need.

:54:42
What?
Expensive footwear and obscene music?

:54:45
If there's something you really need
then we can talk about it.

:54:48
No, we can't. It's not a discussion,
it's an argument, and you always win.

:54:51
-Why not just tell me what to do?
-I want you to think for yourself!

:54:54
I'm thinking for myself! And I want Will to stay!
:54:57
He's not the only one
who ever did anything wrong!

:54:59
Remember how we met? Remember why?
Because you...

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Because you threw a loaf of bread
at a duck's head and killed it, basically.

:55:10
Excuse me? What's this about a duck?
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Are we having duck? Delicious!
:55:17
Of course we were not having duck.
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Instead we had nut loaf with parsnip gravy.
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As I sat there, I had a strange feeling.
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I was enjoying myself.
:55:30
I'd never really enjoyed Christmas before.
:55:33
My mother used to make me sing
Santa's Super Sleigh...

:55:35
...in front of my inebriated uncles and aunts...
:55:37
...just to get at my dad, I think.
:55:40
But Christmas at Marcus',
I'm ashamed to say it, gave me...

:55:44
...a warm, fuzzy feeling.
:55:46
I held that feeling responsible
for the strange events that followed.

:55:53
First of all, Marcus got a crush on a girl.
:55:55
Hello.
Piss off.

:55:59
And then, even stranger, so did I.

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