Yes! I just finished it last night, and I nearly actually squealed from joy! I almost wanted to not finish it, so I could tell myself stories in my head. He gets suspended for writing despairing poetry in the school toilets, and Barry and his gang 'call round for him'. A day later Barry says he can call him 'Baz'. And suggest he has 'leadership qualities' - which would clearly be for JOINT-leadership, with Barry. And Barry's house is the only place he feels relaxed. And he gets bored and wants to leave the gang because he's sick of Barry shoving his prawn balls down his trousers! Dude! I so need to read the rest of the books.
(Pandora omg yes! 'One forgets one is privileged' - ::foams at mouth:: But no, Adrian would not be Adrian without his inappropriate, above-his-station-and-all-good-sense love. I had such high hopes when he went off her...but no. Clearly it will take a rough bully-boy with a poetic soul to shag knock some sense into him...)
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Date: 2006-01-21 09:05 am (UTC)(Pandora omg yes! 'One forgets one is privileged' - ::foams at mouth:: But no, Adrian would not be Adrian without his inappropriate, above-his-station-and-all-good-sense love. I had such high hopes when he went off her...but no. Clearly it will take a rough bully-boy with a poetic soul to
shagknock some sense into him...)