Don't You Forget About Me

by Mhairi McFarlane

I’m just a brother-in-law, stood in front of a girl, asking her to love him enough to stop him having to listen to your sister wittering on.

“Sadly, God gave her free will,” Lucas says to Kitty. “To use as she pleases,” he says to me.

Do I sound like a serial killer?”

“I wondered, Georgina, if you could imagine being in love with me again, the way I’m in love with you. And that given you’re the best thing to ever happen to me, if you could give me the chance to try to be the best thing that ever happened to you.”