A free YA novel about money, mates, and figuring it out

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    • Chapter 11: The Long Game Cover
      by M. Claire I've been putting it off. The adding up. Not because I don't want to know — because I sort of already do, and the number in my head is going to be different from the number on the screen, and one of those is going to be disappointing and I'm not sure which. Saturday. No shift. Yus is at his mate's house, which means the flat is quiet in a way that feels weird, like a bus with no passengers. Mum's at work — twelve till eight. Nani's watching something on her phone in the bedroom, volume up, the tinny…
    • Chapter 12: Maya’s Year Cover
      by M. Claire The last exam is English Language Paper 2. I've been staring at the timetable on the fridge for six weeks and the dates have stopped meaning things. They're just shapes now. Monday the eighth. Wednesday the tenth. Friday the nineteenth. I've crossed them off with a Sharpie — Mum's good Sharpie, the one she uses for labelling Yus's PE kit — and the timetable looks like a murder board from one of those Netflix crime shows except instead of suspects it's GCSE subjects and the only thing getting killed…
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