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While we do have a blanket warning on the show
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about graphic and explicit content, we want to note that
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this book specifically contains subject matter around abortion, sexual assault,
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power dynamics, and the joys and unfortunate horrors of coming
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of age. Listener discretion is extra advised. Passages contains graphic
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and explicit sexual content. Listener discretion is advised.
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Welcome, Oh yeah, welcome to Passages. Passages which one of
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you bitches is my mother.
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To find the answers. Lily will be taken to worlds
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of horny, excess, luxury, power, op a lands. Don't you
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mean opulence, I don't.
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Aristocrats, magnates, and so much.
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Six hundred pages, five continents, and four life stories of
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women as strong, elegant and full of holes as place.
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Dude, I feel like we, oh wait, are we even
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not recording that? Are we recording it? Aaron?
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Aaron doesn't know what's happening.
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Uh yeah, yeah, we might as well be. So we are,
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by the way, five chapters, and this is crazy, and
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I feel like we've read eight books. Hello, welcome to Passages.
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This book.
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This book, this book that's strong and sturdy and complexible.
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What's interesting is they aren't plot holes.
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No, they're they're the.
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Whole of women, the strong independent.
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Yes, and we did talk about this pretty in depth
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last episode. Sorry, I just hit it strong marijuana.
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She just.
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But I think this book is so good at well,
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it's great period but it's really well written. But it's
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really good at taking you like the tone shifts are
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not shifts, they are shocking. Yes, uh sudden, the rug
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is being absolutely fucking yanked out from under you. You're
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in these like innocent, joyful, exciting, beautiful moment and then
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you're then one of our protagonists is literally handcuffed to
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a bed by an adult man.
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She's sixteen and a fucking raped. Yes, there no other
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it does because it's a little I went back and
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read that that part because I to face it. Yes,
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and it's really it's really bad, but it's it's a
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little ambiguous about this happening exactly because she's a she
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was drugs.
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It's her POV.
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It's her POV, and she doesn't really know what she doesn't.
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Know everything's happening. But that's what I was trying to capture.
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I think last time was like how it's so effective
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without needing every detail. It can be ambiguous, and it
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was chilling.
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It's chilling, but it's not it's not graphs.
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It's not gratuitous.
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I wouldn't say gratuitous or graph.
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No, but it doesn't need to be because the reader,
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if you know, she's done such a good job of
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connecting you to these characters and allowing the reader to
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kind of PLoP into each of their worlds at any
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given moment depending on who is like quote unquote on
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screen that you don't need all of this extra really
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graphic shit. Now.
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It moves really quickly through very like a lot of
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deep material, but it's really good at like jump nimbly
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jumping in and out of the heads of the characters,
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because it is like an omniscient narrator, it is, but
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it jumps into her head and gives us the way
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she felt about this this attack, and she doesn't even
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have the the context to come to like really even
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know what happened.
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I want to know what something that's crazy.
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She never says I was raped, No, she which is
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what happened? Yep, she says like later on as she's
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going forward, she's like, oh, I just had this awful,
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awful experience with with the with the driver. She calls
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it this ugly experience. Not she doesn't have the language
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the structure to like.
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Even though you were to communicate what happens, it wasn't.
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Just a horrible you did nothing wrong.
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Which I think is actually another kind of brilliant thing
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about the writing is that obviously, So to recap the
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last chapter, which is relevant here, Yeah, the three of
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the four of our girlies kind of have their first
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sexual encounter. One is not.
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Good, not great, bad, bad bad, a.
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Gray area in terms of assault, and that would be
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very much up to her how she felt about that.
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It felt a little coarse, a little manipulative on his end,
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for sure, and it was not a pleasurable experience. He's
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he's a piece of ship.
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And then we get a real like romance.
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Loving bumbling.
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Ski professional, and then we get this full blown.
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Her literal as she as Pagan is covering for her
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friend Kate.
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No, it's it's Maxine friends.
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Up with Kate is with uh Franois. So I'm trying
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to get all these nets. I I don't know if
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you could tell, but I was so stoned last episode
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that has to be basically not forming me.
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We're going to try to just outdo that every week,
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but it goes back and forth. So it's my week
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to listen.
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So I get to get crazy. You can get you
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get to get crazy. I have I have to be
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able to get to this because's a lot of material.
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It's very difficult, but yeah, I just So we go
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from Pagan covering up for this adorable innocent trists trying
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to sneak her back in, and as part of that,
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she is like, well, I'll guess I'll go with this driver.
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To cover because then we get it. We get a
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co conspirator essentially. Yeah, but if I out and get
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him in trouble, then I have something on him and
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he can't turn us in.
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But unfortunately he slips something into her drink and photographs
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and take dirty pictures for this blackmail ring. Yep, yeah Jesus.
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But what I found.
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Funny, not necessarily funny, haha, but funny, Oh my god.
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And I can't wait to see if it plays out,
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is to like process through that episode that we recorded.
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On the way home, I was listening to the episode
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that had just been released. Yes, and we find out
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about Shark the fucking Headmaster, who he's a huge piece
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of shit whatever, and everybody's terrified of him, and we
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even made the like if we were joking, it's like
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what if they all kill him and then they have
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a shared secret?
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Yeah, what if? That's the thing that actually bonds these
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four girls together.
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But that I think is the main thing from the
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last episode, because Pagan can't remember some things something. But
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then she wakes up, she asks to go to the bathroom.
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He lets her go to the bathroom. She opens like
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a dresser drawer by the bathroom. She sees something in
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the top drawer and she reaches for it and then
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it cuts cut.
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So something happened between there and her getting hold back.
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And she gets back and they're asking her like, oh
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my god, it's five in the morning, like where have
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you been?
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We've been covering for you all night. She's like I
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got really drunk.
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I don't want to talk. I talk about this, And
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she is then like sick for two days. She has
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like flu and there's a gap and oh yes.
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And that is definitely significant.
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Oh yes, we get to it. It is spectacular. Remember
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how you when you walked in I was like I
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love this book.
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Okay, so yeah, that's really like the highlights.
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That's a real roller coaster, just the way that life
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constantly blindsides you, especially when you're a young person who
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has not been given enough information. They don't know what
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This young girl does not even know that she has
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been assaulted, assaulted. She does not even know that that
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that she.
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Knows, but doesn't have like the language to articulate what's happened.
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You just feel that you've been violated without having no knowledge.
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She knows it was gross, she knows it was violating,
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but she does not seem to, throughout this next couple
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of chapters, be able to actually process what actually happened
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to her. And she just tries to like move on
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with their life like it was just a bad sexual
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encounter she had.
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Which I find interesting because isn't it her mother who
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assaulted Kate in their home. It is so I wonder
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if patterns are building. And not to say that Pagan
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is going to be someone who commits assault, but this
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is the kind of thing, but there's this weird connection. Yeah,
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and then how she's processing it is very much that's
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the lord behavior.
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From all of us. Just don't talk it. Yeah, it's
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a nasty thing, and we just don't talk about oh god,
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uh ah knock. But as as you're about to see,
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Pagan is a fucking queen and uh so so. So
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this book then proceeds to from this dark, dark low,
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because that's literally.
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Where we ended was. She gets back to the school
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and she's in the hospital for like three days, and
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then the chapter's done.
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But life does not fucking slow down for these characters
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even a little bit to give them a chance to
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figure out what the fuck happened. It comes at them
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with a literal prince. So Christmas print, it's a Christmas prince.
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Oh my god, she.
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Gets her own Christmas prince. Okay, she finds miss it's
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you will not You could guess what the next plot
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beat in Pagan's storyline is, and you would. It would
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take you a million years.
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Okay, I guess, But I'm not even gonna bother.
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I'm just gonna lock in and be ready for the ride.
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Light j like smack that jay. All right. Chapter five chat,
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So we were about to get through that. I get
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to I get to the end of part one in
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this so part.
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We might be moving out of their adolescent Yeah.
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So we are like a hundred pages in after this chapter.
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We're probably gonna be late teens, early twenties.
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I have no idea. I have no idea what comes
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on and scared. I'm thinking it will be them out
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of school. I bet they'll jump until after prep school.
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But I don't know. I have no idea. You can't wait.
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We know that something must happen for them to disconnect
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because they're all surprised to see each other in the
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opening scene, and.
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That could easily be in their adulthood.
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It isn't their adulthood, but I'm saying it's seen.
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The picture that was painted to me was they were
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all very surprised to see each other. They hadn't seen
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each other in decades, and there's a reason why.
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But here, by the end of part one, they are sisters,
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like they are so tight, so close.
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The trauma bonded.
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They share traumas and secrets, and Joe and you will
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not I mean like after after part one, after finishing
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part one today, I'm like, well, they.
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I love them so much.
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I have to know each other for a lot longer,
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like they have to be. They have to be super
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bonded to each other. So I'm really excited to see
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what is in part two because this like them at
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school is so fucking sweet and puts them in such
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close proximity to each other. But I'm curious how we
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can keep those relationships gorong, because it seems like their
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lives are going to pull them in some really drastically
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different directions, allegedly, allegedly, maybe maybe we get a little
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bit of information about that. Right now, Yes, right now,
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begin the repression for chapter five. Okay, we're repressing all
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the horrors that we have seen dust as are the
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great repression. Ten days later, the resilience of youth had triumphed.
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Pagan had managed to convince herself that she had wiped
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that revolting incident out of her mind and could pretend
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it had never happened. Amazingly, the episode had not lowered
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her high spirits, and one Sunday afternoon, sparkling with restless energy, repression, repression, repression,
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she wheedled the other three into hiring the horse drawn
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red sleigh for an hour.
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So she's manic. She's in a manic episode.
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Nothing traumatic, man nothing happened to me, Pagan, nothing at all.
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And she goes into a fucking full manic thing, and
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she takes them out on a sleigh ride. Off.
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You've never taken me on a sleigh ride. You're such
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a shit.
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I've never been joyful enough or repressing to go on
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a sleigh ride. Off. Cough the horse over the snow
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laced cobbles. The four girls huddled luxuriously under the ancient
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silver fox for rugs, jogging along to the jingle of
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the silver bells on the harness. They waved to pass
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her by as they drove through the fields outside the
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town and headed towards Sinnin. So we get this cozy
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cuddled the total whiplash is I know, I know, I
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love it. So the girls are playing around on the horse,
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and then Judy, being a little dumb dumb fucking gets
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up she doesn't know anything about horses and can't ride. Judy,
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who couldn't ride? This is Pagan's povy Wow. She flaps
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the reins and like does a little crack with the whip,
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just playing around the driving well. The driver is out
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of the carriage at the time, and she accidentally hits
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the mayor in the ear with the whip, and so
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the mayor is like mah and like fucking drags them
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off and Pagan is like running alongside and trying to
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get control of it.
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Again, did I tell you that this happened kind of
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in Ireland? What Bill and I were like just walking,
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just the two of us on a busy city street
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in double way.
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People I love have almost been trampled by horses.
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This is crazy and they have a bunch of the
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touristy we did it. Horse rawn carriage rides through Dublin's
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horse calves pettycabs and so this young kid, really he
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was maybe nineteen or twenty at the oldest, was working.
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He's like in his bright green I'm operating the horse
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drawn carriage cab with people in his cab, and we
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suddenly just heard like a slam, and from what we understand,
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a car hit the carriage, but then hit and ran
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and sped off. It's booked the horse, which bucked off
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the driver while the two people were still in the carriage,
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and the horse took off and the big giant carriage
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with two people in it ran over the driver and
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he was just laid out in the street. So Bill
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and I jumped into the street to like stop traffic,
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and other people were getting him out of the street.
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And then like he was kind of concussed and out
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of it. It was just like we laid him on
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the on the sidewalk and somebody called their equivalent of
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nine on one.
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And people were like checking.
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And meanwhile the horse and the two people who bought
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the cab were just long gone.
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We had no one before the word the horse was
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in charge now yeah.
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And then once an ambulance got there, Bill and I
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were liked, so should we just go because there's nothing
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else we can do about it.
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Literally, we would only be in the way.
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It was crazy, So we're pretty sure he broke something,
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at least a couple of rips. It was fine, I'm sure,
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But I want to hear the POV of the people
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in the carriage when Pagan fucking snapped the ear and
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then they went wild. So I think we're about to
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get it.
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So that's basically it. It's basically them going as they're
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pulled through the but they but Pagan knows, she knows horses.
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She catches up with it, gets control of the thing
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and the and hands back to this other driver comes
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by and helps, and but Pagan is fucking pissed. Yeah,
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She's like, how killed us? Yeah, you, how dare you
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hit that mare? How dare you make her reer and
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gallop on ice? You bloody idiot, get in the back.
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So Pagan like takes control of the situation. You stupid bitch,
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stupid bitch. Outside the stable, a man was waiting for them,
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A dark fellow wearing ski clothes and the arrogant air
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of a privileged servant, with a face devoid of expression
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except for a hint of hateur. He approached Pagan and
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gave a slight bow. So after they have this horse
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drawn carriage incident action scene, action scene, they are on
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their way back and just there's this guy waiting for Pagan.
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I don't know, he's just waiting for them back by
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this back by the he's older, but he works for
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someone who wants to meet you. So, my Master, his
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Royal Highness, the Crown Prince Abdullah wishes to invite you
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to meet him at the Imperial Hotel. And Pagan just
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goes and I'm the Queen of China. Yeah, choosing to
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listen to Junie's apologies. So Junius, he's trying to apologize.
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This guy is like, Prince Abdullah wants to meet you,
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and She's like yeah, yeah, and I'm from the Moon
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and just blows him off. And the guy is like,
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Karima Abdullah certainly is staying at the Imperial Pagan Judy says.
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Judy's like, listen, this guy just legit. Yeah, he's got
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two permanent sweets there while he's at school. So he's
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going to school at the school, but he can't can't
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stay on the grounds because they're much below his stature.
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Nick definitely knows him.
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Uh, I've seen him, but this guy certainly looks like
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one of his Arab bodyguards.
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Judy flung her pale blue scarf around her chin. Look,
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I must go. I'm doing the chessa but I'd consider
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the invitation. How often does a royal invite you to tea?
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So Judy is like trying to apologize, and it like
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quickly He's like, well, I know he's real, go with
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him trying, probably trying to butter Pagan prince okay, and
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then the other girls are like, oh my god, royalty
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like and then so they fucking go to meet him.
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I don't like Pagan continuously being whisked off by strange men.
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Yeah, poor girl.
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So wait, did the other girls come with her.
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Yes, so she's not going a lot. They're all going together,
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thank god. Okay. In a corner of the Great Hall,
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wearing all white ski clothes sat Prince Abdullah, upright and impatient,
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under winged eyebrows. He had the watchful look of a hawk,
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the eyes of a man who is used to being
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obeyed without moving his head. His eyes followed the girl's
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approach when he stood and said politely, so good of
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you to come. Wonderful weather we're having, don't you think.
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His English was clipped with only the faintest trace of
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an accent. The Prince waved a hand at the velvet
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chairs grouped around the table. They sat down and talked
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about the weather and the hotel and ski runs. The
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Prince's ramrod backed his arrogant, almost menacing calm proclaimed majesty,
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but sat oddly on the shoulders of an eighteen year
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old boy. Oh he's like their age, Pagan thought he
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would probably look more at home on an Arab horse
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than on that old green velvet hotel chair. She steered
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the conversation to horses, and the Prince smiled for the
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first time. From that moment, the other two girls might
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not have existed.
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So I love that they like feel hornylicious lust for
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the first time, and they're like, I'm in love.
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These boys the Prince. The Prince honestly makes He's like,
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I want to meet these girls. Bring them over, and
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he talks to the one and she knows about horses.
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He finds a moment of connection with one of these women,
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which I bet is very difficult for him given his upbringing,
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which is very intense and very violent and has an
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absurd amount of money flying around, so it causes all
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this danger. Oh wowsh is what they get. They talk
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about this pretty quickly, so we then cut to ahead
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in time to I suppose it's a snap. It's a
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smash cut because Pagan is just beating him at this
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card game. She's like, snap, and she beats him in
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this card game and he's like but so she's teaching
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him like nursery card games, and they're in his suite.
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She's literally laying on a polar bear skin rug in
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front of a giant fireplace playing cards with Prince Crown
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Prince Doula.
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Oh my god, I know, it's crazy literal fantasy.
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She's in a like a two thousand and four rom
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com movie with all of the the big choices that
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those made. Uh so he she's in his uh but
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teaching him card games like Racing Demon and Snap, which
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I don't know what those are. Racing Demon, Racing Demon.
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In private, Abdullah dropped his invisible cloak of majesty. It
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disappeared as soon as his bodyguards were dismissed with yeah, yeah,
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they this is actually very sweet. I'm starting to think
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you cheat yond Abdullah, who always cheated himself. His grin
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widened into a full lipped smile, showing white even teeth.
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As Abdullah twisted onto his side with an agile catlike
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movement that was somehow lazily dangerous. There was a shot
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crack from the adjoining room, and again this.
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Isn't a gunshot.
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This book proceeds to give the the the Okay, I
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thought we were on like a roller coaster. I don't
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think that's strong enough. Now we're on like one of
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those weird like tilted whirl whip around things that just
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like makes you go like.
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Ah, it's a power tower.
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That tower, like an absurd hydraulic lift that's like shooting
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you up and down.
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Because he hears a beautiful fantasy moment, and then like
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two pages there's a gun shot in the other fucking room.
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Yeah, and now there's this like crack, and Prince Abdullah
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draws a gun out of his fucking waistband and fucking
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James bonds like flipping and dodging into the next room,
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like clearing corners with this gun. That is like looking
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around thinking that there might be an attacker of some kind.
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Oh my god. And then he like checks the room.
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He looks out this like huge window down over the
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valley and then calms down and like lowers his weapon
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and he's like, uh he was standing beside the window
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wall looking out.
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I think it's like the fuck.
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I think a tree just fell. He said, I'm sorry
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I alarmed you, but I have to be careful. But
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the bodyguards gaps Pagan. The price of a bodyguard is low.
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I am in the same position as the poorest beggar
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in my kingdom. If I don't look after myself, no
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one will merry Christmas. Time. Listen to shopping as by.
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A thing or two, or don't just listen to the ads.
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You have to hear it. And uh so he talks
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about like how so his room is extremely bare, but
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the guest, like the receiving room is extremely opulent. And
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he talks about how he has He says that, like,
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Arabs have an uneasy luxury, you know, experience. But I
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think he's really talking about his experience. So he's like,
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I don't have an easy experience with luxury because like,
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I have to be so sharp because my life is
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in danger frequently, because I am at the head of
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this very wealthy power like family, family, in this group,
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and so like I have to be sharp and and
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and she's like, what are you so afraid of? H
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what do you think would have happened? And he goes
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on to about He goes on to tell her about
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all of the times that people try to kidnap and
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or assassinate him. Oh my god, which is one, two, three, four, five, five,
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like five ish time?
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Holy? She he's eighteen.
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Maybe a kidnap plot, maybe an assassination And do you
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really think that would have happened. The first kidnap attempt
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happened before I was a year old. My nurse was
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stoned to death for her part in the plot. The
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next attempt was when I was seven years old. I
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had a bodyguard pushed me under the bed, but they
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hauled me out, then stabbed him five times and left
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him for dead.
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Oh So when he said that the bodyguards are poor,
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essentially they're kind of low on the hierarchy, I think
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that could mean two things.
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Two things.
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One they're replaceable, so he can always get another one,
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and b they can't be trusted because if they could
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easily be manipulated into giving people.
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Access to me, which is something that has happened to
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him before, he has both been saved by his bodyguard
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trade and betrayed by bodyguards. And he's eighteen, Damn.
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His nurse when he was a baby.
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The fuck next attempt was when I was fourteen. We
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were returning from a hunting trip and the first land rover,
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so he imagine driving the first land rover. Damn yep.
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So then a bunch of people starts shooting at them,
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their guard shoot back. He shot twice, and again by
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one of his own guards in the leg accidentally. And
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so after that he's like, listen, I'm always going to
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have a gun. Yep. So footle she notices that there
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is a gun on his bedside table, so he has
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a gun on his person. A gun on his bend
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side table, and he talks about how he always drives
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around with a submachine gun to fucking defend himself if
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fucking shit goes down, because he's.
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Like, honestly, can't blame him, yeah for that logic.
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So, after he tells her all about all this crazy
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violence that he has gone through in his youth, after
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she has adorable evenings with him playing card games, yes,
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she then finds out, oh my gosh, he comes from
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a very turbulent background which is alien to me in
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every way. I cannot even imagine it. Yeah, there's a
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quiet knock at the door. Nick, wearing his waiters uniform,
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opened the door. The respectful look on his face dropped
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for an instant when he saw Pagan lulling on the
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bear skin. Hi, Nick, can you imagine going into Prince
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Abdula's room and seeing you're.
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What are your bestie?
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I'm on the bear skin and he's like, what are
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you doing?
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And it's you.
490
00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:11.640
I'm with the Prince now, man dad.
491
00:26:12.119 --> 00:26:14.000
What the fucking on?
492
00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:22.119
He showed me his guns? I didn't.
493
00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:27.240
I do not have nicks like yeah, ability to hold
494
00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:29.160
it back. I would lose my ship.
495
00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:32.400
What the fun is having. Abdullah ordered lemonade, and.
496
00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:33.519
It wouldn't really surprised.
497
00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:37.880
No, of course you're in here. You're naked with little rosy.
498
00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:43.440
But the man I'm with, the prince. Of course you are.
499
00:26:43.759 --> 00:26:47.200
Of course you are. Here's your cavio Robbie. He had
500
00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:54.440
him killed. He ordered lemonaded tea uh, And Abdula is
501
00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:57.640
still agitated, like a cat pacing around the house. And
502
00:26:57.640 --> 00:26:59.599
she's like, Pagan is like, stop prowling.
503
00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:00.839
It's just Nick, I.
504
00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:03.440
Have a restless spirit. If you never feel secure, then
505
00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:06.960
naturally you feel restless. Nick returned the laden tray and
506
00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:10.000
gave Abdullah another look of servile insolence as he stiffly
507
00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:11.559
bent and placed the tray on the low table on
508
00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:18.720
the velvet couch. Pagan winked at Nick, who ignored her.
509
00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.400
He can't stand Abdullah, she thought. I wonder why, not
510
00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:25.680
one muscle movement did Abdullah show that he had recognized Nick.
511
00:27:25.960 --> 00:27:29.039
But he had, and for one swift moment, Abdullah remembered
512
00:27:29.079 --> 00:27:32.799
the most humiliating moment of his life. So now we
513
00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:38.039
get an Abdullah flashback POV to his time at boarding school.
514
00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:41.160
I'm curious what the fuck this has to do with Nick.
515
00:27:41.319 --> 00:27:44.640
Yep, yeah, because Nick also goes to the same school.
516
00:27:45.160 --> 00:27:47.559
They knew each other before now and.
517
00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:51.759
They don't have any bad blood. But the Prince has
518
00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:55.680
big bad blood with these other boys. Oh, he's got
519
00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:59.400
big fucking anger towards these other boys because of the
520
00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:02.359
way they treat him. And we get the worst incident
521
00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:06.720
of his past at the boarding school, the most humiliating
522
00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:11.240
incident at the boarding school. So it starts with the
523
00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:13.640
scene where all the boys are gathered around this board
524
00:28:13.799 --> 00:28:16.240
that like the poster board or where all the like
525
00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:21.279
posters and flyers and things are putting corpord. Yeah, they
526
00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:23.079
call it a base board, but I don't know what
527
00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:26.480
that is. So there, they put up the list for
528
00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:28.559
who's going to be on the house team for football,
529
00:28:29.319 --> 00:28:30.640
and he made which.
530
00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:31.400
Is, of course soccer.
531
00:28:31.640 --> 00:28:40.599
Yes, yes, of course American, our American listeners soccer. Because
532
00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:43.000
no one could figure this out, No one knows this.
533
00:28:43.519 --> 00:28:46.880
So he is on the house team and he's so excited,
534
00:28:46.920 --> 00:28:51.920
he's like fist pumping excited about this. But Abdullah is also,
535
00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:54.759
interestingly the only boy without a surname, so it's all
536
00:28:54.799 --> 00:28:58.079
like John Winston and blah blah blah, and then just aulay,
537
00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:01.480
because he does have a he doesn't. He doesn't have
538
00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:03.640
a name. He has like probably a long series of titles.
539
00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:08.079
Abdullah didn't understand why every boy himself, include included, was
540
00:29:08.119 --> 00:29:11.200
equal of rank inside those stone walls. To Abdullah, the
541
00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:14.400
centuries old traditional top drawer British school was a hostile,
542
00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:19.400
incomprehensible world. Ignorant of the private language and rigid conversations
543
00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:22.880
of his school fellows, Abdullah did was what was not
544
00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:26.599
done and said what, according to eat and etiquette, should
545
00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:30.440
not be said. Okay, so he can't connect with these
546
00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:33.839
boys because he doesn't know their world and comes from
547
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:36.480
a different one. So he says, he probably just doesn't
548
00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:39.920
use like the same kind of decorum and edita he means.
549
00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:41.839
When he went exactly, he just speaks his mind.
550
00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:44.000
But now he's these are meant for talking aboutind each
551
00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:45.200
other's backs, not for just saying.
552
00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:47.400
He's like, listen, I can't make friends with these guys,
553
00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:50.119
but now I'm on the house team, maybe we can
554
00:29:50.519 --> 00:29:53.160
will be friends with them. They'll all be so proud
555
00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:54.640
of me and we'll all be buddies.
556
00:29:55.880 --> 00:29:56.880
All the innocence.
557
00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:02.720
Yes, uh So, each pupil had his own small room
558
00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:05.519
with a scarred wooden table, two chairs, and a narrow
559
00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:09.200
metal convertible bed. A bureau in a chest of Dulah
560
00:30:09.319 --> 00:30:11.240
was pretty much the same, except he has pictures of
561
00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:15.759
King George, a ceremonial uniform dedicated by King George, a
562
00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:19.319
prince of when Prince Abdullah was thirteen, taking a salute
563
00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:21.880
from the Sidonian Palace guard and getting a kiss on
564
00:30:21.880 --> 00:30:24.920
the cheek from Rita Hayworth. Hi God, it's the same
565
00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:26.119
room except his pictures.
566
00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:28.240
His pictures are very different, very.
567
00:30:28.119 --> 00:30:30.359
Very different from the rest of the boys. So this
568
00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:32.720
is back when he was younger and still living like
569
00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:36.440
actually in the boarding school, but now he's living nearby
570
00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:40.279
in the hotel. Got it. As Abdullah rummaged in his
571
00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:42.839
bureau for a missing Latin grammar, he heard voices that
572
00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:46.079
he recognized outside the door, and he sort of eavesdrops
573
00:30:46.119 --> 00:30:48.519
on these boys talking about him. Can you believe it?
574
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:51.720
Look haut in the baboons on the house's side. Oh
575
00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:55.960
my god, no bucking me. We can't can't think why
576
00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:59.359
they would have to have him in cool Ridges. I
577
00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:02.400
suppose he's not bad at dribbling, but he's always cornering
578
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:06.680
and sneaking am some N word lover will put him
579
00:31:06.759 --> 00:31:10.279
up for the pop next expect he'll get a record
580
00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:15.880
number of black balls. Black l ol, Oh my god,
581
00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:19.640
what colored balls? Do you think baboons have? Royal purple?
582
00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:20.279
Do you think?
583
00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:21.279
Stop?
584
00:31:21.559 --> 00:31:23.920
There was a burst of horse laughter as a bell
585
00:31:24.079 --> 00:31:26.799
rang and the malicious voices drifted away.
586
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:28.920
These little racist.
587
00:31:28.599 --> 00:31:33.000
Little racist fuckers managed to be all kinds of different
588
00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:35.720
sorts of racists, all back to back. Yes, And he
589
00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:41.640
hears this, this like dream of his, crushed that these
590
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:43.599
boys can accept him now that he has something in
591
00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:48.920
common with them, and then he essentially vows vengeance in
592
00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:54.759
the most perfect for this book, fucking get way. Possibly.
593
00:31:55.319 --> 00:32:00.680
He's like, I fucking don't dare confront them there. First
594
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:02.759
of all, they're all on the debate team, which makes
595
00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:05.440
them high status at this school. They're also good at
596
00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:10.440
arguing with the spoken words, with the spoken word, which
597
00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:12.799
is probably my second or third language.
598
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:16.160
But I've been targeted my whole life. Yeah, so I
599
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:19.039
can get them. I have is they never even fucking
600
00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:19.880
imagine I.
601
00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:23.039
And the way he comes up with is fucking amazing.
602
00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:26.319
He's like, who cares what those trash things they were
603
00:32:26.440 --> 00:32:30.200
destined to be merely farmers, soldiers or politician. I'm gonna
604
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:33.920
be a fucking king man beloved by many tries, cheered
605
00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:36.000
by men and women. And then he takes a deep
606
00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:45.000
breath and he's like women, He's like, I'm gonna fuck
607
00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:52.279
all their girlfriends. Yes, yes, so he I love him.
608
00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:56.599
He then goes those arrogant non entities hadn't been instructed
609
00:32:56.599 --> 00:33:00.559
for three weeks by the Hakiman Cairo, which we find
610
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:04.759
out later. We find out later is a like sex
611
00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:09.480
tutor mentor about how to pleasure women about they He
612
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:13.160
went for a three week intensive with this, like I
613
00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:16.759
don't know, like guru, lady pleasing guru.
614
00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:18.720
This should be required.
615
00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:22.759
I think there should just be like just everyone sex
616
00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:26.920
working professionals that are like all right, eighteen nineteen twenty,
617
00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:29.880
whenever you're ready, come here and we will we will
618
00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:34.200
show you how all this is here. Here's how smash
619
00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:39.440
the clin smash smash it, yank ye, then smash the clin,
620
00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:40.559
rip it, tear it with.
621
00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:45.279
You, leslie Nope, giving the condom to okay, put roll
622
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:45.799
it down.
623
00:33:48.559 --> 00:33:51.720
So he's like he's like plotting this. He's like shaking
624
00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:56.359
with rage, but is like he decided that he would
625
00:33:56.400 --> 00:33:57.359
have the women.
626
00:33:57.599 --> 00:33:59.559
Yeah fuck yeah, dude.
627
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:01.799
I was like, by the way, I have to point
628
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:08.559
out arrogant non entities is the fucking slam. I can
629
00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:09.599
fucking think of it.
630
00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:11.920
It's very much giving. I don't think about you at all.
631
00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:15.320
I don't think about you. Calling someone a non entity
632
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:21.920
is so fucking brutal that hurts. Okay, So Pagan goes
633
00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:25.639
up to Nick's room after this encounter because she's like,
634
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:29.800
I gotta find out why he is all pissy about Abdullah.
635
00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:32.519
And then Nick is like, when she walks in, is
636
00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:35.760
like slumming, he inquired coldly, as Pagan pecked him on
637
00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:36.159
the cheek.
638
00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:37.719
Oh my god, No.
639
00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:41.039
Just wondering why you can't stand Abdullah. You can't expect
640
00:34:41.039 --> 00:34:43.679
to have all the attention of all four of us,
641
00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:48.039
you know, especially when we know that you're besauted with Judy.
642
00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:52.960
The spring sag on as she sat on the iron bedstead.
643
00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:57.079
Nick looked unhappy. Your private license is none of my business,
644
00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:01.119
but what is Nick? Has Abdy already got a girl?
645
00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:04.519
I have no idea anyway, It's none of my business,
646
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:06.960
and I wouldn't tell you if I knew. But we
647
00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:09.440
were at school together. And I promise you that bastard
648
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:10.920
Abdullah is not what he seems.
649
00:35:11.159 --> 00:35:13.440
So Nick probably has this idea in his head that
650
00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:18.280
Abdullah is like a quote unquote manhore player and like
651
00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:22.000
he cares about Pagan exactly, You're just gonna be another
652
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:25.559
because he's with everyone at school. But he doesn't have
653
00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:28.599
the context of why why he did that, which is
654
00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:30.480
so which I think Nick might respect.
655
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:32.679
I actually think that if he was like, wait, wait, wait,
656
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:35.960
wait wait, you slept with their girlfriends, not just because
657
00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:40.280
you think women are this disposable commodity for your own pleasure,
658
00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:44.320
but has an act of revenge against them specifically, it
659
00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:46.440
is kind of cool. It is kind of interesting, it's
660
00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:47.159
fucking funny.
661
00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:50.519
It's obviously it's awful and like that's still a way
662
00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:54.800
to use women's.
663
00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:56.239
Terrible, But it is something that I am a teenage
664
00:35:56.400 --> 00:35:58.920
and like eighteen year old parents might come up with.
665
00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:02.119
Right and long as as long as he's not like
666
00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:08.039
assaulting women. If you're gonna if you're gonna like sleep around,
667
00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:12.159
then of course do it at school. When not everyone
668
00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:14.320
that you end up with is like gonna be the
669
00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:16.760
person you fucking marry. When it's like we're all fucking
670
00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:17.159
each other.
671
00:36:17.239 --> 00:36:19.599
The other thing that I like to think about is
672
00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:22.880
that it isn't even so much that he It's that
673
00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:25.239
it isn't even so much that he slept with their girlfriends.
674
00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:29.159
It's that he like showed them heights of pleasure that
675
00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:33.800
they never know again, and then their fucking dumpy, little
676
00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:36.960
non entity boyfriends could never do for them. And I
677
00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:39.199
like to imagine that it isn't even that they broke
678
00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:41.960
up because of the cheating, or he stole them away
679
00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:43.679
from them, which is probably what he actually did, right.
680
00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:46.840
He probably stole them away, break up, dated them, and
681
00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:50.079
then banged them. That's that's kind of seams his style.
682
00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:54.800
The back to these chuds and he's and they're just like,
683
00:36:55.039 --> 00:36:59.480
I will never touch me again. Ever, my standards have
684
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:03.760
been raised by a fucking Yeah. So Nick just knows
685
00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:06.960
that this guy gets around. He sleeps with a lot
686
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:10.159
of women. He sleeps with a bunch of people. I
687
00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:15.920
know his girlfriends probably. Yeah, of course women think he's irresistible.
688
00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:19.360
He's obviously attractive. It's not only that, said Pagan with
689
00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:22.159
a giggle. It's the stage props that are such fun.
690
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:25.159
The guns, the bodyguards and the flowing robes and the
691
00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:29.280
fierce black mustaches and the precautions. She was talking about
692
00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:31.440
the guns. Yeah, she saw that gun and she's like,
693
00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:35.599
oh no, what is this doing for me? Why to
694
00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:37.760
see him doing James Bond tuck'n' roll.
695
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:41.599
But you know what, after she's had such a violent experience,
696
00:37:41.800 --> 00:37:45.559
to be attracted to someone who could protect her makes
697
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:46.840
a ton of sense to me.
698
00:37:48.159 --> 00:37:50.960
So he goes on and he's like, well, you know,
699
00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:54.000
Abdullah uses women. He doesn't care about women, not the
700
00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:57.880
maids or chaps, as sisters or even mothers. So apparently,
701
00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:08.719
so apparently at least one of these non entities Abdullah
702
00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:14.599
banged their mom. He got, he got a girlfriend, a sister,
703
00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:19.039
and one of their moms. I fucking love it so much.
704
00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:22.079
I think Abdulah's my favorite.
705
00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:27.239
I love him so much. Interest fuck, you're gonna bang
706
00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:31.719
your but and not just bang them, make them multiple
707
00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:36.039
orgasm like your father could never give them nights of
708
00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:39.480
their lives. They will never forget. That makes it so
709
00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:42.920
much better to me. I love and when you find out,
710
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:44.920
when you get a little bit of like what he
711
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:52.119
Dula's powers later, I do I do think that that
712
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:55.079
is what happened is that they like went back, like
713
00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:57.400
change women.
714
00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:04.119
Ship, how hard they came changing the DNA forever.
715
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:09.079
They can't even see their husbands anymore. They just John,
716
00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:11.559
where are you? I'm right here. I don't I hear you.
717
00:39:11.519 --> 00:39:17.119
But I don't see your certainly feel you, ye okie,
718
00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:19.400
fucking shit, I.
719
00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:29.119
A best. Surely you don't mean it's Pagan, imagine exactly
720
00:39:29.159 --> 00:39:34.199
what we just imagine. And she's like, oh, he's just
721
00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:37.320
so he like Nick kind of chickens out of being
722
00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:39.360
too graphic about it. And it's like, well, he's just
723
00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:41.480
very objective about women. And he's like and she's like,
724
00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:45.039
he's objective about everybody, Like I don't care. She seems
725
00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:50.000
very pet chill passive about this. She's like, it's just
726
00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:51.199
some fun.
727
00:39:51.320 --> 00:39:52.639
Yeah, he's not my husband.
728
00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:57.840
I don't care that much. He's just a super fun distraction.
729
00:39:58.599 --> 00:40:04.880
I'm not bagging him. It's fine, like, and they talk
730
00:40:04.920 --> 00:40:08.639
about his combination of medaceine charm, which I love, and
731
00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:11.639
Nick is essentially just like he's no gentleman, and Pagan
732
00:40:11.679 --> 00:40:14.960
throws her head back and laughed. Darling Nick, she said,
733
00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:16.599
you're such an old auntie.
734
00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:18.599
He is.
735
00:40:18.639 --> 00:40:21.239
In the future, I'll wear barbed wire instead of a
736
00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:27.239
nicker elastic. I am nick. Yeah, I feel very seen
737
00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:31.000
pining over some girl who won't give me any fucking attention,
738
00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:34.320
and then just winding up as the cuck brother to
739
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:39.320
all of these beautiful, cool, interesting girls, and they're like, oh, Robbie,
740
00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:43.480
you're such an old auntie. This is exactly the role
741
00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:44.119
I would be in.
742
00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:46.199
Whatever your husband's so fucking hot.
743
00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:48.360
I know it was. It was, let me tell you,
744
00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:50.800
it was a fucking lot of work to trick him
745
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:54.079
and marry me. Good. I did good, but it took
746
00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:54.920
all my strength.
747
00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:57.719
He married you for me, all my skills.
748
00:40:57.800 --> 00:41:03.320
Oh listen, package deal, you're an asset. You're actually probably
749
00:41:04.559 --> 00:41:07.960
way up there in assets. Yeah, I'm just trying to think,
750
00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:10.840
like maybe me being kind of funny would be the
751
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:12.599
first one. And then like right after that, it's like,
752
00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:16.880
why you get Amanda two? Yep, yeah, you hear that. Boys,
753
00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:21.840
you take me, you get Amanda two? Okay, So every
754
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:24.679
two days a fucking fuck ton of long stem roses
755
00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:30.039
comes for Pagan. Uh oh okay, So she's kind of
756
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:33.199
dating the prince a little bit, get girl, and then
757
00:41:33.239 --> 00:41:37.960
she gets a telephone call. Tagan gets a telephone call.
758
00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:41.519
Who a telephone call was always an event in their lives.
759
00:41:41.880 --> 00:41:44.960
My cousin Casper called me, so she's coming back into
760
00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:46.519
the room after having this telephone call.
761
00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:46.920
Huh.
762
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:50.119
He's our ambassador in the Emirates, and he said that
763
00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:52.800
he's heard that I see a great deal of Prince
764
00:41:52.880 --> 00:42:01.159
of Doulah and that I should be most prudent. Caspar
765
00:42:01.360 --> 00:42:05.519
also said that in saidan, women are regarded as possessions,
766
00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:09.960
and once defiled, they are discarded, in fact, sometimes stoned
767
00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:12.039
to death. Okay, so we're getting.
768
00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:14.239
This like the shroud of racism the.
769
00:42:16.639 --> 00:42:19.719
Arabs. Yeah, I lovely just call them Arabs as because
770
00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:23.679
the whole, the whole, yeah, like subcontinent is like, yeah,
771
00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:24.519
we're not going to.
772
00:42:24.599 --> 00:42:29.679
Actually do the work of yeah, being specific about the
773
00:42:29.800 --> 00:42:34.679
very different cultures and identities across this entire region. But
774
00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:38.599
obviously not. We're in nineteen eighty one.
775
00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:43.320
With characters from the forties, the forties, Yeah, bloody well
776
00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:46.199
keeps still, Kate, So Maxine keeps interjecting. It's very again,
777
00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:49.880
very cinematic. Maxine keeps interjecting in with like Kates sits
778
00:42:49.880 --> 00:42:51.960
still because she's trying to do her toenails. So they're
779
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:55.679
having this whole conversation about how women are treated terribly
780
00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:57.280
in the Middle East. Kates, it's still I gotta paint
781
00:42:57.280 --> 00:42:59.360
your toes like just it's so great the way that
782
00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:03.880
she's like the different characters and conversations, Like she doesn't
783
00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:05.199
just forget about the other girls.
784
00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:08.559
You don't just get monologues, you really get these immersive.
785
00:43:08.320 --> 00:43:11.039
Very immersive scenes. Oh, like a writer, I love how
786
00:43:11.159 --> 00:43:16.079
starve we are. I know, I know, so, so I
787
00:43:16.119 --> 00:43:19.519
asked what had defiled? What defiled Arab women had got
788
00:43:19.559 --> 00:43:22.000
to do with me? She was wearing a tattered Victorian
789
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:24.199
nightgown that was over one hundred years old and a
790
00:43:24.199 --> 00:43:27.079
pair of scarlet Turkish slippers with the toes curled up,
791
00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:30.800
so she's wearing dift. She's like, I don't know what
792
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:33.159
all of these four suffering Arab women have to do
793
00:43:33.199 --> 00:43:39.000
with me. She kicks kick Turkish curled shoes, the other
794
00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:42.039
two sat up, and nail polish dripped on Kate's ankles.
795
00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:45.320
Old Caspar said that Abdi was pushed into power long
796
00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:47.840
before he was old enough, and because his family is
797
00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:51.440
apparently very religious and a bit mad, lives in total seclusion,
798
00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:54.000
so he's essentially living away from his family. Now I
799
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:56.960
think he's actually out of school. He's eighteen, but just
800
00:43:57.000 --> 00:43:59.639
out of school. But he's not going home. Yeah, because
801
00:43:59.679 --> 00:44:02.119
he has this very powerful family and they're apparently all
802
00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:03.920
a little fucking nutty nutty.
803
00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:05.119
Yeah, he doesn't want to go.
804
00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:09.480
He doesn't want to go back. Yeah. And so her,
805
00:44:09.559 --> 00:44:14.599
her cousin, who's the the I don't know, attache to
806
00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:17.119
the fucking Emirates or whatever, is like giving her the
807
00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:22.960
rundown on this guy. And then yeah, and I wrote,
808
00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:25.280
I wrote in my notes for Pagan, it's just a
809
00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:27.719
laugh and a distraction at this point. Even his warnings
810
00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:30.400
about like, oh, it's a very weird, undistable, and she's like,
811
00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:32.719
I don't give a fucking shit yet. Yeah, I got
812
00:44:32.800 --> 00:44:36.480
cool robes and slippers on. I get roses every two weeks.
813
00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:39.039
I'm having a fuck or every two days. Yeah, I'm
814
00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:44.840
having a fucking blast. And then Caspar told me Abdullah
815
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:48.880
is engaged to be married. What Maxine and her white
816
00:44:48.960 --> 00:44:52.559
nightgows stopped climbing into bed. Who oh to some Arab
817
00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:55.239
princess who's only ten years old? Can you believe it?
818
00:44:55.280 --> 00:44:58.480
They're gonna be married when she's fifteen? Oh yis yeah,
819
00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:01.760
yuk yuk yuk, which, by the way, a fucking does not.
820
00:45:03.239 --> 00:45:07.119
Also, like, obviously, I feel there's so many trophy things,
821
00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:12.320
especially among like brown people from white people about child
822
00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:14.639
marriage blah blah blah. Just a friendly reminder that like,
823
00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:16.840
child marriage is very much alive and well here in
824
00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:17.480
the United.
825
00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:18.519
States, every.
826
00:45:19.679 --> 00:45:24.440
Ship white Christian like creep O's are some of the
827
00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:31.039
most egregious advantage. Yeah, in the US.
828
00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:34.079
So this is this is not unique, not at all,
829
00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:39.559
and and is uh it was a practice in all
830
00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:44.000
cultures and all cultures. It's just maintained unfortunately longer in
831
00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:49.920
some others, including American Modern America and Christian societies. Yeah.
832
00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:53.599
So suddenly the lights go out because the the matron has,
833
00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:56.599
like the masters its lights.
834
00:45:56.639 --> 00:45:58.679
What about the toenails have.
835
00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:02.760
To be left unfinished. Sadly they'll be uneven, and that's
836
00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:05.400
why one of them dies. Oh god, she stumbles down
837
00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:10.480
the stairs. All my toes were even. Uh. I loved this,
838
00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:12.800
I loved this passage. Suddenly the lights went out, switched
839
00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:15.559
off as usual from the Headmaster's apartment, and the moonlight
840
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:18.960
streaming through the lace curtains cast a wreath of intercuess
841
00:46:18.960 --> 00:46:22.239
a wreath of intertwined pale gray roses on Maxine's bed
842
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:24.760
as she tossed back the sheets and rushed over to
843
00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:25.480
hug Pagan.
844
00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:28.800
Poor darling, Poor darling, he's a bloody two timer, a
845
00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:32.400
rat a sheet because it's because it's Maxine.
846
00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:36.280
So when she says a ship, yeah, he's a yeah.
847
00:46:36.559 --> 00:46:40.400
Oh he's a rat the sheet. Oh it's true. It
848
00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:44.840
sounds medieval, exclaimed Kate about the un marriage. Well, that's
849
00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:48.280
exactly Caspar's point. Abdey isn't like a rich western teenager
850
00:46:48.320 --> 00:46:50.000
trying to behave like a man in the world. He's
851
00:46:50.039 --> 00:46:54.079
sort of a ruthless, very powerful desert hood. She paused.
852
00:46:54.360 --> 00:46:57.000
I rather think that that's what I find so fascinating.
853
00:46:57.159 --> 00:46:59.960
So she's like, he's like almost like a gangster, yeah,
854
00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:02.679
because she doesn't have any context for like how these
855
00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:05.519
families with all this oil money and all this yeah, operate,
856
00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:06.880
And she's like, he's just kind of like a like
857
00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:12.360
a gangster to me. But he's certainly not to be trusted,
858
00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:16.320
said Maxine. But then, of course no man can be trusted.
859
00:47:17.199 --> 00:47:20.679
Cut out the sophisticated act, Kate said, who can you trust?
860
00:47:21.119 --> 00:47:26.119
We can trust e chezzah, Maxine said firmly, so rather solemnly,
861
00:47:26.320 --> 00:47:29.159
they all sat on Kate's bed in the moonlight and
862
00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:35.119
promised lasting friendship through thick and thin, Pagan said, wildly,
863
00:47:35.159 --> 00:47:38.000
shaking her hands over her head like a bruise but
864
00:47:38.119 --> 00:47:43.480
victorious boxer. Thick and thin, giggled Kate. Especially thin, she said,
865
00:47:43.480 --> 00:47:48.000
prod still well covered ribs again. She's because they don't
866
00:47:48.280 --> 00:47:50.719
know the disordered way in which Maxine has lost all
867
00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:55.039
this weight. They're just like, oh fun, skinny, now seek
868
00:47:55.119 --> 00:47:58.920
and scene, said Maxine, who, like all French French people
869
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:03.880
pronounced tea h's as s's. Well, yes that too, Kate said,
870
00:48:03.920 --> 00:48:08.400
thoughtfully interestingly, she had I love that sick and sin, well,
871
00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:11.440
yes that too. So through thick and thrin, through sick
872
00:48:11.480 --> 00:48:13.400
and sin. That's their motto.
873
00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:14.760
In sickness and in.
874
00:48:14.880 --> 00:48:19.199
Sin sin, it's a bad it's a plane.
875
00:48:19.519 --> 00:48:21.679
It's a quick ad break before we get back to
876
00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:22.079
the show.
877
00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:29.519
Okay, So they're passing notes in class and Kate reads
878
00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:32.840
the note in class surreptitiously to not get caught getting
879
00:48:32.840 --> 00:48:36.880
a ball gown. Whoopee. So Pagan is getting a ball gown.
880
00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:39.320
For an event with Abdi and how she.
881
00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:43.159
Managed to wrangle the ball gown is fucking masterful. So
882
00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:47.079
she talks to her mother about Abdullah. Abdullah is quite agitated,
883
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:49.360
but she's like, I need I'm going to He's probably
884
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:51.320
going to ask me to the Saint Valentine's Day ball
885
00:48:51.440 --> 00:48:54.039
and my mom, you know, I have nothing to fucking wear.
886
00:48:54.559 --> 00:48:56.800
And then the mom is like, mad bry, don't want
887
00:48:56.880 --> 00:48:59.519
you to. And then she cuts her mom off, hangs
888
00:48:59.559 --> 00:49:03.800
up on her, and calls her grandfather and is like.
889
00:49:04.039 --> 00:49:08.360
Grandpa, puppy, I needed prop the ball gown and gown.
890
00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:10.599
And then she and how she gets him to agree
891
00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:15.679
to it is that she indicates, kind of insinuates that
892
00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:19.000
if he doesn't get her one, Prince Abdullah might get
893
00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:21.159
her one. She'd have no choice but to.
894
00:49:21.159 --> 00:49:24.440
Accept this, yes, this physic extravagant gift.
895
00:49:24.400 --> 00:49:27.440
From this prince of the Middle East. And he's like,
896
00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:33.039
so she he agrees to buy her a ball gown
897
00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:37.199
on the condition that she accepts no fucking gifts from Abdullah.
898
00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:41.239
She's like, okay, which was the gift which was a
899
00:49:41.360 --> 00:49:45.880
huge mistake because oh my god, he tries to give
900
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:48.039
her some amazing fucking gifts coming up.
901
00:49:48.079 --> 00:49:48.880
But she won't take them.
902
00:49:48.920 --> 00:49:53.280
She keeps take them. She keeps her word. It's amazing. No,
903
00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:54.599
I would just lie.
904
00:49:55.119 --> 00:49:56.199
I didn't take anything from.
905
00:49:56.039 --> 00:49:58.719
Her, So she uh spends more time with him. She
906
00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:02.280
drops it about his like ten year old fiance. I
907
00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:05.400
asked whether he had a ten year old fiance. He wrote,
908
00:50:05.679 --> 00:50:08.239
rather displease and pointed his chit at me and said
909
00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:10.480
he did, but that it was entirely a matter of
910
00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:13.639
diplomacy and nothing to do with UH. And then he
911
00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:16.880
gets mad and just sits there and like like thinks
912
00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:20.519
about it for a while, and then she I love this.
913
00:50:20.920 --> 00:50:22.920
I love the scene where he's just like, I don't
914
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:25.760
know what to do. And then their their interaction is
915
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:28.840
really weird. And then he leaves and then like a
916
00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:31.800
bodyguard comes in with a big red box and he
917
00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:35.039
has a huge diamond necklace in God, so that's how
918
00:50:35.079 --> 00:50:38.199
he dealt with her finding out give her this gorgeous gift.
919
00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:41.440
I don't know what to do. I'll give her diamonds. Yeah,
920
00:50:42.119 --> 00:50:43.480
he doesn't know what to do, so.
921
00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:46.119
He never keep my word to my grandfather. I it's
922
00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:47.480
the first.
923
00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:51.880
Box that's I rib as an utterly divine diamond necklace.
924
00:50:52.199 --> 00:50:55.199
But she promised her grandfather. So she shoots it down, wow,
925
00:50:55.320 --> 00:50:57.039
and then she has to shoot down like four or
926
00:50:57.079 --> 00:51:01.320
five more of them on following occasion. On following four occasions,
927
00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:04.159
when Pagan turned up at tea time for Prince Abdullah,
928
00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:07.199
a big crimson velvet box comes out and including a
929
00:51:08.159 --> 00:51:12.000
emerald earrings, a tiara of golden birch leaves, the bracelet
930
00:51:12.079 --> 00:51:16.400
of aquamarine, or an enormous uncut sapphire ring. What The
931
00:51:16.440 --> 00:51:20.840
only thing Pagan accepted with with her mother's permission was
932
00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:26.280
Abdullah's grandfather's riding cloak, so like a family heirloom that
933
00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:28.599
he wants to give her, And she's like, I guess
934
00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:30.360
it's kind of ratty, but I guess I'm allowed to
935
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:31.840
take it because I told my mom about it. And
936
00:51:31.960 --> 00:51:34.679
it's a it's like it's like pinning. It's like giving
937
00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:36.559
you his letter jacket or something. Is kind of what
938
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:38.840
she seems to think it is, but you find out
939
00:51:38.880 --> 00:51:42.760
later that it's by far the most expensive thing that
940
00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:44.880
he has tried to give her because it is made
941
00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:48.320
out of like Persian, like like lamb, it's like cashmer
942
00:51:48.840 --> 00:51:51.760
it's like or it's some rare Persian.
943
00:51:53.159 --> 00:51:53.360
Yeah.
944
00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:56.199
So she doesn't know, so she's like, Okay, I guess
945
00:51:56.199 --> 00:52:03.360
I took that. That thing's worthless, like and it's probably
946
00:52:03.400 --> 00:52:08.599
a historical artifact. Yeah soses, Yeah, so I like horses
947
00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:12.400
like us. It's a car, so isn't it fucking great?
948
00:52:13.159 --> 00:52:13.960
I love those?
949
00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:17.760
Yeah, this is so fun. I love that I got
950
00:52:18.079 --> 00:52:20.320
for once, not like graphic discussion.
951
00:52:20.400 --> 00:52:22.679
Yeah, I feel like the way that the chapters are
952
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:24.440
landing is in our favor thus far.
953
00:52:24.559 --> 00:52:27.760
Yes, thus far. Pagan had coaxed Maxine and lending her
954
00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:31.639
her pale blue taffeta Christian Dio dress. So for a little,
955
00:52:31.719 --> 00:52:34.079
a small dance. It's not the big Valentine's Day dance,
956
00:52:34.119 --> 00:52:36.360
but it is like a small, a small dance coming up,
957
00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:38.159
which is so funny because they describe all the girls
958
00:52:38.199 --> 00:52:42.119
clomping it in their boots becauseide and then they have
959
00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:44.559
little their dancing shoes and bags. So they're in these
960
00:52:44.559 --> 00:52:47.599
beautiful dresses with big clompy boots. It's just very cute.
961
00:52:47.639 --> 00:52:49.639
We used to have to do that sometimes for Sweethearts
962
00:52:49.719 --> 00:52:53.079
dances and stuff. We'd be walking through feet of snow.
963
00:52:53.239 --> 00:52:59.039
Yeah. My sister went the Halloween blizzard as aerial, so
964
00:52:59.159 --> 00:53:03.000
she had the colored shirt. And the she sell bra
965
00:53:03.599 --> 00:53:05.599
and her tail and just big boots and a big
966
00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:08.199
puff coat and she was wading through the snow. She
967
00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:10.199
like wouldn't take it off because she liked it so much,
968
00:53:10.239 --> 00:53:12.480
even though she had to wade through snow. It's fucking
969
00:53:12.559 --> 00:53:16.360
so cute, so cute. So Pagan convinces Maxine to give
970
00:53:16.400 --> 00:53:18.719
her her pale blue dress, but she has to wear
971
00:53:18.719 --> 00:53:21.119
this bolero around her shoulders because she can't zip it
972
00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:24.599
up all the way. Oh yeah, because she's yeah, because
973
00:53:24.679 --> 00:53:27.440
she's much larger than Maxica. But then there goes she's
974
00:53:27.519 --> 00:53:29.519
also have to wear this bolero the whole night. Big
975
00:53:29.559 --> 00:53:36.280
deal music from a band playing blah blah blah Dulah's bodyguards. Ah,
976
00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:39.960
so this is this is great. Uh. As she's at
977
00:53:39.960 --> 00:53:42.400
the dance, she's dancing with another boy and then one
978
00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:45.000
of the bodyguards comes up and is like, my master,
979
00:53:45.119 --> 00:53:47.119
the crown Princes Abdullah, which just two dance with you,
980
00:53:48.360 --> 00:53:50.960
and then the guy is like. The Danish student is like, well,
981
00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:53.000
he'll have to wait, and then the bodyguard knocks him
982
00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:56.519
the fuck over. No, the Danish student was sprawled on
983
00:53:56.519 --> 00:53:59.800
the floor and it's like, no, knocks him over and
984
00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:02.679
then takes her over there, just being described as a
985
00:54:03.239 --> 00:54:05.920
iron hand in the small of her back. Still smiling,
986
00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:08.199
she said, may it please your Royal Highness to tell
987
00:54:08.239 --> 00:54:10.199
your thugs never to touch me again?
988
00:54:10.360 --> 00:54:12.320
Yeah? I good for her.
989
00:54:12.400 --> 00:54:14.519
I love her so much.
990
00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:16.320
Huh.
991
00:54:16.360 --> 00:54:19.280
And remember I'm not one of your subjects. You don't
992
00:54:19.360 --> 00:54:23.360
own me, and I shall dance with whom I please. Yes, yes,
993
00:54:23.679 --> 00:54:26.480
Suddenly she dropped her hoteur and then like leans in
994
00:54:26.519 --> 00:54:28.280
and is like, abde, why don't you have to humiliate
995
00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:31.639
hans A draw all this attention to me? And it
996
00:54:31.719 --> 00:54:34.639
is a pause, and he apologizes, most regrettable, my servant
997
00:54:34.760 --> 00:54:38.880
is over zealous. Oh stop talking like an Indian raj
998
00:54:38.960 --> 00:54:40.920
phrase book. Of course I want to be with you,
999
00:54:41.239 --> 00:54:43.840
but you really can't push people around as it suits
1000
00:54:43.880 --> 00:54:46.920
you and expect them to like you. I hate it
1001
00:54:46.920 --> 00:54:50.119
when you act suddenly imperious. This is just an ordinary dance,
1002
00:54:50.159 --> 00:54:52.159
and if you didn't want to be treated like in
1003
00:54:52.199 --> 00:54:56.119
an ordinary manner, you shouldn't have come. Yeah, wickedly, she added,
1004
00:54:56.320 --> 00:54:58.719
I hope you aren't going to be as bossy with
1005
00:54:58.800 --> 00:55:04.280
your ten year old va, and then Abdullah's mouth tightens,
1006
00:55:04.280 --> 00:55:05.960
he blazes with anger. I love that she's kind of
1007
00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:09.480
laying out. Listen. I like spending time with you, and
1008
00:55:09.519 --> 00:55:12.000
I like being with you, but you cannot fucking act
1009
00:55:12.079 --> 00:55:15.400
all ownzy ponesy about me when you've got a fiance.
1010
00:55:16.000 --> 00:55:19.119
I love it. It's great. Abdullah's mouth tightened and he'd
1011
00:55:19.159 --> 00:55:23.880
just give her jewels and obtained jewels. I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
1012
00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:28.199
here are jewels. Abdullah's mouth tightened and his eyes blazed
1013
00:55:28.199 --> 00:55:30.440
with anger. For a moment, Pagan thought he might hit her,
1014
00:55:30.599 --> 00:55:32.519
but instead he put his arms around her and they
1015
00:55:32.599 --> 00:55:35.639
danced off in silence. Unseen by Abdullah, Pagan blew a
1016
00:55:35.719 --> 00:55:39.760
kiss over her shoulder to ham Oh God at her.
1017
00:55:41.440 --> 00:55:41.920
I love it.
1018
00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:47.360
She is living her fucking life. Suddenly, Pagan found that
1019
00:55:47.360 --> 00:55:49.400
she was trembling, and she leaned against And this is
1020
00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:51.639
the part I didn't want to read because it's all horny, okay,
1021
00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:54.719
But I have to read it because it's important. Leaned
1022
00:55:54.760 --> 00:55:58.239
against Abdullah's muscular body, closer to him, Suddenly, more physically
1023
00:55:58.280 --> 00:56:00.800
aware of him in the crowd out of dancers than
1024
00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:03.519
she had ever been alone with him in the suite. Tonight,
1025
00:56:03.639 --> 00:56:07.400
Pagan felt different, reckless as she felt his warm breath
1026
00:56:07.480 --> 00:56:09.840
on the side of her neck, then the tip of
1027
00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:13.000
his tongue against it. Erotic and inviting, he gives her
1028
00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:17.119
a little little kiss. For the rest of the evening,
1029
00:56:17.159 --> 00:56:20.119
Pagan moved around the dance floor in an erotic drance.
1030
00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:23.559
As the midnight curfew approached, Abdullah look straight into her
1031
00:56:23.559 --> 00:56:26.719
eyes and murmured, persuasively, come back with me and let
1032
00:56:26.760 --> 00:56:30.760
me show you what love is. Whoa make you feel
1033
00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:37.360
as you've never felt before, And Pagan goes, aha, how
1034
00:56:37.360 --> 00:56:40.199
can you be so sure, because when I was sixteen,
1035
00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:43.119
I spent three weeks in Cairo with the Hakim car
1036
00:56:43.159 --> 00:56:46.119
al Sad, who taught me how to make love. To
1037
00:56:46.280 --> 00:56:49.519
think only of your pleasure. You had lessons in love
1038
00:56:49.559 --> 00:56:54.559
for three weeks. You studied it like geography. Pagan was astounded, impressed,
1039
00:56:54.559 --> 00:56:58.320
and intrigued. She longed to ask what he had learned
1040
00:56:58.360 --> 00:57:01.039
and how it was taught there real life women or
1041
00:57:01.079 --> 00:57:03.760
a blackboard in chalk, and was their homework and what
1042
00:57:03.800 --> 00:57:08.880
difference had it made girl girl? Instead, she simply blurted
1043
00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:14.440
out how he nibbled at her ear lobe. Come back
1044
00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:18.639
to the Imperial and let me show you brawl, and
1045
00:57:18.679 --> 00:57:20.960
she goes okay and goes out and goes to the
1046
00:57:20.960 --> 00:57:23.079
door with him before she kept like comes to her
1047
00:57:23.119 --> 00:57:25.639
senses and it's like no fucking wait, wait, wait, wait,
1048
00:57:25.679 --> 00:57:29.039
wait wait. Let that she gets as far as the door,
1049
00:57:29.599 --> 00:57:32.199
she's like in a trance and she's like, yup, let's go.
1050
00:57:32.519 --> 00:57:35.519
But then the cold air, yes, yes, that's the way
1051
00:57:35.639 --> 00:57:38.599
I can't do. That's actually that's great, that would be amazing.
1052
00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:40.559
And then she but then she also thinks about like
1053
00:57:41.679 --> 00:57:44.639
her mother, the fiance, the paparazzi, like the cold air
1054
00:57:44.679 --> 00:57:47.559
from the door like snaps her two and she's like,
1055
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:50.360
I can't. I simply can't. Opdi. Look, Mademoiselle is waving
1056
00:57:50.440 --> 00:57:54.199
us all to the cloakroom because there time to leave.
1057
00:57:54.639 --> 00:57:57.440
Aching with desire, Abdullah pulled her to him as Pagan
1058
00:57:57.480 --> 00:57:59.679
tried to break away. What do you expect a man
1059
00:57:59.719 --> 00:58:01.880
to do? He growled, You aroused me, and then you
1060
00:58:01.960 --> 00:58:04.079
vanished into the night. In my country, we have a
1061
00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:06.719
word for such a woman. Oh, in my country too.
1062
00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:10.760
Then Pagan couldn't resist adding, but after all, you are engaged.
1063
00:58:13.280 --> 00:58:17.199
Abdullah's black eyes blazed again, and an impatient Mademoiselle waved
1064
00:58:17.199 --> 00:58:19.880
a beckoning finger at Pagan. Prince or no prince, she
1065
00:58:20.039 --> 00:58:23.159
wanted to prince or no prince, She wanted to get
1066
00:58:23.199 --> 00:58:26.239
to her bed once more. Abdullah pulled Pagan tight against
1067
00:58:26.239 --> 00:58:30.239
his body and she felt his throbbing arousal. Then Abdullah
1068
00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:32.199
turned on his heels and stucked angrily.
1069
00:58:32.880 --> 00:58:34.519
Mark just boner away from her.
1070
00:58:34.760 --> 00:58:38.599
Yeah, just took his big boner and walked it away.
1071
00:58:39.159 --> 00:58:39.920
Wow.
1072
00:58:40.440 --> 00:58:43.000
On the evening before the Saint Valentine's dance.
1073
00:58:43.079 --> 00:58:44.760
So this is the big big dance.
1074
00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:47.360
It's like it's like in Puppets, there were like so
1075
00:58:47.400 --> 00:58:48.039
many parties.
1076
00:58:48.360 --> 00:58:50.559
There's six balls.
1077
00:58:50.400 --> 00:58:53.679
It's important. Okay, this is the important one, is the
1078
00:58:53.719 --> 00:58:58.880
big one. Guys, ladies, gentlemen, ladies, ladies and gentle ladies
1079
00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:01.519
and gentle them. Get ready because here we go. It's
1080
00:59:01.519 --> 00:59:05.239
the big one. On the evening before the Saint Valentine's dance,
1081
00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:08.159
Kate burst into the bedroom. Pagan, you slut, You didn't
1082
00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:12.519
clean the bath after you full your pubs. There's a
1083
00:59:12.599 --> 00:59:15.679
grubby ring around it. But surely a math is for
1084
00:59:15.719 --> 00:59:19.239
cleaning oneself, said Pagan, puzzled. One does not clean it,
1085
00:59:19.840 --> 00:59:22.840
one hasn't up to date, but one damn well will
1086
00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:24.119
in the future, said Kate.
1087
00:59:24.199 --> 00:59:26.280
You have roommates now, you don't have servants in your
1088
00:59:26.280 --> 00:59:27.000
own little house.
1089
00:59:27.119 --> 00:59:30.639
You really are the slaught of the school. Oh rage
1090
00:59:30.719 --> 00:59:35.000
on the square. Pagan yelled her new curse words and
1091
00:59:35.159 --> 00:59:38.320
threw a tattered exercise book at Kate. I'm sick to
1092
00:59:38.360 --> 00:59:39.800
the winners of the both of you.
1093
00:59:41.519 --> 00:59:45.119
Kate's always criticizing a Magcine doesn't keep her promises. I
1094
00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:49.320
do keep my promises, you, Beach, you promised to lend
1095
00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:50.800
me ten francs.
1096
00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:52.400
Mailed, I mean sheet.
1097
00:59:53.000 --> 00:59:56.480
Why don't you ask your little rich prince for ten francs.
1098
00:59:56.760 --> 00:59:59.880
He can afford it better than an I, only because
1099
00:59:59.880 --> 01:00:01.760
you spend all your money on diet food and get
1100
01:00:01.800 --> 01:00:02.480
skinny for your.
1101
01:00:02.360 --> 01:00:05.480
Stupid sche bum who likes skiing more than he likes you.
1102
01:00:06.519 --> 01:00:09.039
Pagan pounced on Maxine and pummeled her.
1103
01:00:09.199 --> 01:00:11.440
Oh they're literally fighting.
1104
01:00:11.800 --> 01:00:16.840
They are playing. They are being playful. Ow mail the sheet,
1105
01:00:17.039 --> 01:00:22.239
fac damn it blo de dep beach okay okay uh
1106
01:00:22.760 --> 01:00:29.800
al mared sheet f e r k ferk damn it
1107
01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:38.960
blue dep Beach. Stop that sexy scuffling, Kate cried. You
1108
01:00:39.079 --> 01:00:41.480
know Major always suspects that the whole school is a
1109
01:00:41.519 --> 01:00:43.039
seething mass of lesbians.
1110
01:00:43.199 --> 01:00:45.800
Oh my gosh, they're gonna girl fucking each other.
1111
01:00:46.119 --> 01:00:49.440
Please don't quarrel. I can't bear it. Pagan didn't mean
1112
01:00:49.480 --> 01:00:52.039
what she said about Pierre. Of course he really loves you.
1113
01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:56.159
Of course he does. I know that because of eat,
1114
01:00:56.679 --> 01:01:00.480
Maxine said, with dignity, especially because of the after else
1115
01:01:00.880 --> 01:01:03.800
they go didn't glow like fireworks dying in the sky.
1116
01:01:05.079 --> 01:01:07.920
There was a pause, and then Kate said timidly, afterward
1117
01:01:08.039 --> 01:01:10.239
is the awful part for me? I feel so jittery
1118
01:01:10.280 --> 01:01:13.840
and weepy and sort of apart from Francois. Mon you,
1119
01:01:14.079 --> 01:01:17.320
I feel so much closer to Pierre. Maybe you haven't
1120
01:01:17.320 --> 01:01:20.039
done it enough. I didn't like it the first time
1121
01:01:20.079 --> 01:01:22.440
with Pierre, but I didn't want to upset him, so
1122
01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:24.719
I said nothing. I wanted him to stay with me.
1123
01:01:24.880 --> 01:01:27.400
That's all I felt at first. That's the only thing
1124
01:01:27.400 --> 01:01:30.840
I feel with Francois. Kate worried. I've been doing it
1125
01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:32.880
longer than you have, Maxine. But the last thing I
1126
01:01:32.920 --> 01:01:35.599
feel is deep peace. When I really feel sexy and
1127
01:01:35.679 --> 01:01:39.039
utterly marvelous and glowing is before we start. The afterword
1128
01:01:39.119 --> 01:01:43.440
is just let down. I mean, you cling to someone
1129
01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:45.159
for hours and hours on the dance floor, and you
1130
01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:47.960
can feel his body against yours. You can smell it
1131
01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:50.400
in the rock to the music, wrapped around each other,
1132
01:01:50.440 --> 01:01:52.679
and every time he moved you almost swoon, and you
1133
01:01:52.760 --> 01:01:55.519
finally go the whole way because you know that it
1134
01:01:55.519 --> 01:01:57.880
will be even better. And then he puts his thing
1135
01:01:57.920 --> 01:01:59.800
in you and suddenly everything goes flat.
1136
01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:00.480
Mm hmm.
1137
01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:03.480
He's in seventh heaven and going wild. And I'm suddenly
1138
01:02:03.519 --> 01:02:05.480
looking down at the scene from the ceiling and that
1139
01:02:05.559 --> 01:02:09.480
marvelous melting knees feeling is gone. I want to hit
1140
01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:10.400
him and cry.
1141
01:02:10.519 --> 01:02:12.440
Yeah, because as soon as he gets what he wants,
1142
01:02:12.719 --> 01:02:16.000
you're you. He doesn't have any like he doesn't pay
1143
01:02:16.039 --> 01:02:18.039
attention to you. He just gives his own needs.
1144
01:02:18.360 --> 01:02:21.719
Fuck about you or your pleasure. He's not doing this.
1145
01:02:21.639 --> 01:02:22.320
Is what he's doing.
1146
01:02:22.320 --> 01:02:24.360
It to connect with you because he loves you.
1147
01:02:27.039 --> 01:02:27.920
Oh, I can't wait.
1148
01:02:27.960 --> 01:02:31.360
He is to do sex with someone who likes you.
1149
01:02:31.440 --> 01:02:34.239
Oh that would be preferable.
1150
01:02:34.480 --> 01:02:40.360
Likes you at least a little bits. That's my wisdom.
1151
01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:43.639
You never thought of that, did you? I did it.
1152
01:02:44.800 --> 01:02:48.280
Maybe you should relax more, Kate. Maybe you worry too
1153
01:02:48.320 --> 01:02:50.679
much about what you should be doing instead of how
1154
01:02:50.760 --> 01:02:55.000
you feel. I always feel wonderful and afterwards you're low.
1155
01:02:55.159 --> 01:02:58.400
It must be because you're French, Kate said gloomily. I
1156
01:02:58.480 --> 01:03:00.880
like to imagine Kate when she gets oppressed as just
1157
01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:04.760
this dumpy, like like like me in address, Like, just
1158
01:03:05.079 --> 01:03:09.159
don't be called your French. Don't be silly, said Pagan.
1159
01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:12.599
Maybe Francois hasn't had enough practice, Maybe he's never been
1160
01:03:12.599 --> 01:03:16.000
told what to do. When Abdullah was sixteen, he went
1161
01:03:16.039 --> 01:03:20.519
to a special doctor to learn about love for weeks.
1162
01:03:20.599 --> 01:03:24.440
Imagine I didn't like to ask him if it was
1163
01:03:24.719 --> 01:03:32.199
tests or exams, and oh, that's right. Everyone stares at
1164
01:03:32.239 --> 01:03:35.719
her in silence like and she's like, you're wrong. We
1165
01:03:35.840 --> 01:03:37.679
never have. And I'm not going to say another word
1166
01:03:37.679 --> 01:03:39.800
because pes o Meagan is like, we're not sleeping together.
1167
01:03:40.559 --> 01:03:42.760
We just just came up in regular conversation.
1168
01:03:42.840 --> 01:03:44.039
Yeah, it's totally normal.
1169
01:03:44.920 --> 01:03:47.480
How do we know that story as an upmarket brand
1170
01:03:47.559 --> 01:03:50.440
of old Arabic bullshit? If you won't talk about the
1171
01:03:50.480 --> 01:03:55.400
consumer test, demanded Kate. We're coming out with our sexual
1172
01:03:55.440 --> 01:03:58.920
experiences in the interest of further education, and if you
1173
01:03:58.960 --> 01:04:02.079
won't join us, then you can listen. This is serious
1174
01:04:02.079 --> 01:04:06.440
for me. Maybe I'm serious, you're serious. Maybe I have
1175
01:04:06.559 --> 01:04:10.840
a fleek. Maybe I'm worried. So she's like, I can't
1176
01:04:11.039 --> 01:04:14.880
enjoy sex with him, maybe there's something wrong with me. Yeah,
1177
01:04:14.920 --> 01:04:17.039
well there isn't no.
1178
01:04:18.599 --> 01:04:18.840
Case.
1179
01:04:18.960 --> 01:04:20.960
And you know what though, you know what, though there
1180
01:04:21.039 --> 01:04:22.880
is a little bit of something wrong with her. It's
1181
01:04:22.920 --> 01:04:30.360
called undealt with trauma. Yeah, sexual assault. Well, if you're
1182
01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:32.559
a freak, then I am too, because I felt the
1183
01:04:32.599 --> 01:04:36.039
same way as you did, Pagan says. But it wasn't
1184
01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:39.400
with Obdy. It was with Paul. And if you dare
1185
01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:44.159
tell anyone, I'll kill you. Oh my god, So you did, yes,
1186
01:04:44.199 --> 01:04:47.519
said Pagan gloomily. And it was beastly. I think sex
1187
01:04:47.599 --> 01:04:52.000
is overrated. So Pagan seems to think that what happened,
1188
01:04:52.039 --> 01:04:56.840
that what happened was sex. Yeah, sadly, so I suspect
1189
01:04:56.880 --> 01:05:00.639
it's addictive, offered Maxine. Like istas, there was a bang
1190
01:05:00.679 --> 01:05:05.400
on the door. I don't like them either. Andre the
1191
01:05:05.519 --> 01:05:08.559
ancient porter carried in a huge box dress to Pagan.
1192
01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:11.039
The other two girls peeled over her, peered over her
1193
01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:13.880
shoulder as she opened it her dress. There was a
1194
01:05:14.280 --> 01:05:18.239
There was no tissue paper. The box was full of soft,
1195
01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:22.360
dark Persian lamb. There was an odd silence As Pagan
1196
01:05:22.400 --> 01:05:25.000
lifted it out and draped it around her shoulders and
1197
01:05:25.079 --> 01:05:28.280
pulled the hood over her tangled mahogany hair, the wonderful
1198
01:05:28.320 --> 01:05:32.039
cloak reached to the floor. Oh Christ, I mean, mon Dieu,
1199
01:05:32.599 --> 01:05:36.079
said Pagan. This isn't what Mama expected. I'll have to
1200
01:05:36.239 --> 01:05:37.880
check with her or she'll give me hell.
1201
01:05:38.119 --> 01:05:41.199
Oh, it's the clothes. But it's much more beautiful than
1202
01:05:41.239 --> 01:05:43.239
she and I wonder if he downplayed it.
1203
01:05:43.719 --> 01:05:48.679
He said, my father's my grandfather's riding cloak.
1204
01:05:49.039 --> 01:05:49.480
That's it.
1205
01:05:50.119 --> 01:05:53.719
Yes, So she expecting him to know that a royal
1206
01:05:54.000 --> 01:06:00.280
riding clothes probably it's like an important garment. She thinks
1207
01:06:00.320 --> 01:06:02.239
that it's like they're riding cloak, which is more of
1208
01:06:02.239 --> 01:06:04.559
a service garment. But this is a it's like what
1209
01:06:04.679 --> 01:06:07.440
the the Queen of England wears when she was on
1210
01:06:07.480 --> 01:06:10.880
a horse. It's like that big cloak that's a status symbol.
1211
01:06:11.239 --> 01:06:13.480
And this like like I like we talked about earlier,
1212
01:06:13.679 --> 01:06:20.679
this blows away in price anything that he fucking yeah,
1213
01:06:20.760 --> 01:06:24.880
So she has now a Persian king's cloak.
1214
01:06:24.639 --> 01:06:26.800
And it's fucking gorgeous.
1215
01:06:27.280 --> 01:06:30.360
All of them try it on immediately. Pagan went to
1216
01:06:30.440 --> 01:06:32.280
the telephone to call her mother, she came back half
1217
01:06:32.320 --> 01:06:35.960
an hour looking vexed. She says that as she agreed
1218
01:06:36.079 --> 01:06:38.000
I could have it, I can keep it, but as
1219
01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:41.159
the cloak is valuable, I can't wear it. I can
1220
01:06:41.239 --> 01:06:43.639
wear it to Saint Dontine's Day ball because to do
1221
01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:46.039
so otherwise would be discourteous, but after that I'm not
1222
01:06:46.039 --> 01:06:48.760
to be seen in it. Well, at least it will
1223
01:06:48.800 --> 01:06:51.079
be warmer to wear at night than that rotten old
1224
01:06:51.079 --> 01:06:55.519
beld quilt. So Pagan now has her sight. Her like
1225
01:06:55.800 --> 01:06:59.320
nightclothes are like it was like a half a million
1226
01:06:59.440 --> 01:07:01.440
dollar like our price, all the gifts.
1227
01:07:01.199 --> 01:07:03.239
That she's not allowed to wear outside of her room.
1228
01:07:03.639 --> 01:07:05.480
So for the rest of her time at school, after
1229
01:07:05.559 --> 01:07:07.719
lights out, Pagan sat cross legged on the end of
1230
01:07:07.800 --> 01:07:11.320
Kate's bed, wrapped from head to toe in priceless Persian.
1231
01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:11.760
Wow.
1232
01:07:12.280 --> 01:07:15.000
Wow, unbelievable.
1233
01:07:15.280 --> 01:07:20.599
All right, So then, oh god, there's more. There's more.
1234
01:07:20.840 --> 01:07:22.840
That's the end of chapter five. Chapter five is quite long.
1235
01:07:22.920 --> 01:07:26.559
Chapter six is quite short. Okay, So now we are
1236
01:07:27.599 --> 01:07:31.280
at the dance and the girls are all there and
1237
01:07:31.480 --> 01:07:35.679
she hasn't Kate hasn't seen Francois in fucking weeks, and
1238
01:07:35.719 --> 01:07:38.840
he's like, oh my god, where's my fucking date? You know?
1239
01:07:39.079 --> 01:07:43.039
And Maxine sees Pierre immediately it's like runs after it.
1240
01:07:43.440 --> 01:07:45.880
And so the girls are all at the dance, and
1241
01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:49.639
Judy is in she's working the event, so she is
1242
01:07:49.679 --> 01:07:53.480
in a traditional Swiss costume with a white blouse, tightly
1243
01:07:53.559 --> 01:07:59.719
laced black corsel it and voluminous scarlet skirt a yeardle.
1244
01:08:00.199 --> 01:08:04.639
She's in like fucking like traditional October festal and shit,
1245
01:08:05.159 --> 01:08:07.639
it comes over and is like slipping down into like
1246
01:08:07.679 --> 01:08:09.559
quickly down to the table to just have little micro
1247
01:08:09.719 --> 01:08:11.639
chats with them, and it's like, oh, they glad to
1248
01:08:11.639 --> 01:08:14.280
stop wearing this cuckoo clock outfit. I can't stay long
1249
01:08:14.320 --> 01:08:16.760
because I'm helping behind the bar. What's up, Kate? When
1250
01:08:16.800 --> 01:08:19.359
Kate explained, Judy said, you've got two legs and a
1251
01:08:19.399 --> 01:08:20.960
tongue in your head. Don't just sit there. Go over
1252
01:08:21.000 --> 01:08:24.760
to him and say hello, because she has spotted Francois.
1253
01:08:25.319 --> 01:08:30.319
But Francois is seated between two plump, dark girls with
1254
01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:33.640
identically heavy, heavy lidded somnolent eyes.
1255
01:08:33.800 --> 01:08:34.960
So he's with two other chicks.
1256
01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:39.439
He is in between two Greek heiresses. Oh dang, And
1257
01:08:39.479 --> 01:08:43.359
it turns out perhaps he hasn't been so busy with skiing.
1258
01:08:44.319 --> 01:08:49.159
He's been canoodlean with heiresses behind his back, her back.
1259
01:08:51.920 --> 01:08:54.119
So Kate is like, you know what, I'm gonna go
1260
01:08:54.159 --> 01:08:55.680
up to him. I'm gonna be an adult and I'm
1261
01:08:55.680 --> 01:08:58.279
going to I'm gonna talk to him. I'm gonna talk
1262
01:08:58.319 --> 01:09:00.159
to him. I'm gonna see what the fuck is going on,
1263
01:09:01.119 --> 01:09:04.319
Kate said, goes over to him and says, I'm sitting
1264
01:09:04.319 --> 01:09:07.840
in the far corner. Francois, so I noticed. I look
1265
01:09:07.920 --> 01:09:11.920
forward to dancing with you later. Perhaps bewildered, Kate recognized
1266
01:09:11.960 --> 01:09:14.640
his note of dismissal and clumsily bumped her way back
1267
01:09:14.640 --> 01:09:16.600
to the tables to have a seat later.
1268
01:09:16.840 --> 01:09:18.000
That motherfucker.
1269
01:09:18.159 --> 01:09:21.359
Perhaps this was the Valentine's tame bo.
1270
01:09:22.000 --> 01:09:23.880
Yeah, bitch, you supposed to my boyfriend.
1271
01:09:24.039 --> 01:09:27.199
What's wrong, Maxine ass And then they rush off to
1272
01:09:27.239 --> 01:09:31.760
the coatroom, and they do this five times. Meet the coatroom,
1273
01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:33.479
they look at each other and then look at the coatroom,
1274
01:09:33.479 --> 01:09:34.800
and they all run to the courtroom, and then they
1275
01:09:34.800 --> 01:09:36.520
have this little chat in the coatroom, and then they
1276
01:09:36.600 --> 01:09:37.840
go back out, and then they look at each other
1277
01:09:37.840 --> 01:09:39.600
and they go and they go to the coat room.
1278
01:09:39.760 --> 01:09:43.399
It's fucking amazing. Once in the coatroom, Kate burst into tears,
1279
01:09:44.039 --> 01:09:46.319
and then Maxine is like, I think perhaps you exaggerate,
1280
01:09:46.439 --> 01:09:49.399
Maxine said soothingly, perhaps they are old friends of his.
1281
01:09:50.119 --> 01:09:52.359
I'll go over and say hello, you wait here, So
1282
01:09:52.439 --> 01:09:57.159
Maxine goes over to me again. He's introduced to the
1283
01:09:57.159 --> 01:10:00.560
two girls. Poor Kate, thought Maxine, and she hurried back, Yeah,
1284
01:10:01.000 --> 01:10:04.840
you ain't misinterpreting anything. Yeah. Across the dimly room lit room,
1285
01:10:04.880 --> 01:10:07.760
Maxine saw Judy and jerked her head towards the cloak room.
1286
01:10:07.960 --> 01:10:11.680
Judy joined them. A few minutes later. Maxine was saying, kay, Chenry,
1287
01:10:11.800 --> 01:10:14.680
you must stop these tears. There must be some reason
1288
01:10:14.840 --> 01:10:18.319
for his behavior. But even as she spoke, Maxine knew
1289
01:10:18.520 --> 01:10:21.000
there were two reasons, and one was sitting on each
1290
01:10:21.039 --> 01:10:23.880
side of Francois. Look, he's a rat and you're well
1291
01:10:23.960 --> 01:10:26.199
rid of him, said Judy, too inexperienced to know that
1292
01:10:26.239 --> 01:10:30.359
a friend should never denigrate a jilted woman's lover. Oh
1293
01:10:30.439 --> 01:10:33.279
come on, well, I do have to say that, like
1294
01:10:33.720 --> 01:10:38.920
if you just got okay, remember clueless When when the
1295
01:10:38.960 --> 01:10:42.720
girl gets passed over by Elton, the guy they're trying
1296
01:10:42.720 --> 01:10:45.279
to set her up with, Brittany Murphy's character, and they're like,
1297
01:10:45.359 --> 01:10:47.760
you can do way better than him. He sucks, he sucks.
1298
01:10:47.760 --> 01:10:49.920
You can do better than him. If I can do
1299
01:10:50.039 --> 01:10:51.439
better than him, why am I not?
1300
01:10:51.479 --> 01:10:52.479
Why am I not?
1301
01:10:53.680 --> 01:10:57.720
Yeah, because you're not in a very rational place at
1302
01:10:57.760 --> 01:11:00.800
the moment, and it's like he's a piece of shit,
1303
01:11:00.880 --> 01:11:03.039
he's ugly. Well, I can't even get a piece of shit.
1304
01:11:03.119 --> 01:11:11.680
Ugly guy, is what your evil brain does to you.
1305
01:11:09.039 --> 01:11:11.800
Aaron, Our piggy daddy needs his ad.
1306
01:11:11.640 --> 01:11:19.680
Slopint here are ads. But then they're like, okay, but
1307
01:11:19.720 --> 01:11:22.840
you can't fucking cry in the cloak. Sure a ship
1308
01:11:23.000 --> 01:11:23.600
can't be seen.
1309
01:11:23.760 --> 01:11:26.000
Go get back at him by fucking dancing with every dude.
1310
01:11:26.039 --> 01:11:27.760
You were the bell of the ball last time.
1311
01:11:28.600 --> 01:11:33.880
Don't Also they mentioned that herne that her neckline has
1312
01:11:33.920 --> 01:11:39.119
been getting lower. Oh yeah, her neckline, which would have
1313
01:11:39.119 --> 01:11:42.960
gotten lower every dance. So they're like, you gotta get
1314
01:11:42.960 --> 01:11:46.000
your ship together and get out there. You cannot be
1315
01:11:46.159 --> 01:11:51.039
seen to you cannot let him know he hurt you. Look,
1316
01:11:51.079 --> 01:11:53.880
Francois has been having lunch at the chessa all last
1317
01:11:53.880 --> 01:11:57.279
week with those two Greek lumps, said Judy. They're heiresses.
1318
01:11:57.279 --> 01:11:59.680
Who is shipping fortune, and don't think that Francois doesn't
1319
01:11:59.720 --> 01:12:03.119
know it. You can either snivel on or brave it
1320
01:12:03.239 --> 01:12:07.039
up and show that he's not dumped you, you know. Unfortunately,
1321
01:12:07.119 --> 01:12:09.920
this conversation was overheard by another here and Dell Pupil,
1322
01:12:09.960 --> 01:12:12.760
who was in the toilet booths, and they all hate
1323
01:12:12.800 --> 01:12:16.680
on Kate. She gleefully sped out to whisper the news.
1324
01:12:16.920 --> 01:12:21.720
Oh mys DoD had received her come up and said lash.
1325
01:12:21.800 --> 01:12:24.680
When Kate emerged, freshly made up, she instantly recognized that
1326
01:12:24.720 --> 01:12:28.520
her humiliation was commonage. I love that it spreads like
1327
01:12:28.760 --> 01:12:33.319
wildfires through this place. It brought out the Irish in Kate,
1328
01:12:33.359 --> 01:12:36.159
and she beckoned to the waiter, Nick, get me a
1329
01:12:36.239 --> 01:12:38.760
double something. There's a darling girl.
1330
01:12:39.439 --> 01:12:42.640
Girl, take a shot and get your ass.
1331
01:12:42.960 --> 01:12:45.199
So Kate is the Irish in her. The fire and
1332
01:12:45.239 --> 01:12:47.520
her crops up and she's like, now she's just pissed
1333
01:12:47.520 --> 01:12:49.920
at all these fucking people talking behind her back, and
1334
01:12:49.960 --> 01:12:53.079
she's like, fuck it. Nick, who also knew about the
1335
01:12:53.079 --> 01:12:59.199
Greek twins, produced a forbidden double brandy, always.
1336
01:12:58.800 --> 01:13:00.479
Have a friend who's a barn under it?
1337
01:13:01.119 --> 01:13:05.840
Yeah, it comforted Nick to comfort Kate. Why didn't Okay,
1338
01:13:05.960 --> 01:13:08.640
and then he goes on this tangent about his heartbreak
1339
01:13:08.760 --> 01:13:11.600
in his head, where he's like he knew how it felt.
1340
01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:14.600
Why doesn't Judy feel the force of my love? Why
1341
01:13:14.640 --> 01:13:16.760
doesn't the force of my love make Judy love me?
1342
01:13:17.439 --> 01:13:19.840
Why did she constantly refuse to treat him as anything
1343
01:13:19.840 --> 01:13:22.319
but a friend. For both Nick and Kate, part of
1344
01:13:22.359 --> 01:13:24.760
the pain of their love lay and not realizing that
1345
01:13:24.840 --> 01:13:27.640
it was not the only love of their lives, but
1346
01:13:27.760 --> 01:13:30.159
only the first love of their life.
1347
01:13:30.479 --> 01:13:33.000
I all, Nick doesn't become some sort of like in
1348
01:13:33.079 --> 01:13:35.199
Cell because Judy never fucks him.
1349
01:13:35.319 --> 01:13:39.960
Quite the opposite, because Nick says, look, there's a but
1350
01:13:40.199 --> 01:13:44.159
the but oh, he talks to Kate tells, look at
1351
01:13:44.199 --> 01:13:46.399
all these there's a bunch of boys from le Monne
1352
01:13:46.399 --> 01:13:50.079
coming in. Talks about these like the princes. An Indian
1353
01:13:50.199 --> 01:13:54.319
rajah blonde Scandinavian boy who's like, looks like a prince
1354
01:13:54.520 --> 01:13:57.720
blah blah blah blah. So she's like, go get them.
1355
01:13:57.920 --> 01:14:00.880
As as they sauntered over to their table, a sudden mistake,
1356
01:14:01.079 --> 01:14:04.319
unmistakable hush fell. So these boys are coming in and
1357
01:14:04.359 --> 01:14:06.319
then someone else comes in.
1358
01:14:06.560 --> 01:14:07.079
Oh.
1359
01:14:07.359 --> 01:14:10.119
It was the moment of anticipation that always preceded the
1360
01:14:10.279 --> 01:14:13.880
entrance of Royalty. All heads turned towards the door. Why
1361
01:14:13.880 --> 01:14:17.199
Prince Aptula, the guest of honor, stood as stiffly as
1362
01:14:17.279 --> 01:14:21.039
if he were reviewing a parade demure on his arm.
1363
01:14:21.479 --> 01:14:25.119
Pagan floated down the steps in a cloud of sparkling
1364
01:14:25.680 --> 01:14:33.600
missed Gray tweal el that's tool. It's not pronounced tool.
1365
01:14:33.840 --> 01:14:39.199
No tool, disappointing Kate, So Kate. They see Pagan float
1366
01:14:39.279 --> 01:14:42.760
down into the room, and then Kate is like fuck it,
1367
01:14:43.119 --> 01:14:45.920
and she starts flirting with Nick, with whom she feels safe.
1368
01:14:46.079 --> 01:14:48.600
At midnight, pink and white balloons fell in a cloud
1369
01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:51.680
from the ceiling, and all the women guests were presented
1370
01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:54.319
with a single heart shaped powder compact and a single
1371
01:14:54.319 --> 01:14:58.000
long stemmed pink rose. Silver streamers were hurled around the ballroom,
1372
01:14:58.239 --> 01:15:02.520
and all formality was a mad Kate could no longer
1373
01:15:02.760 --> 01:15:07.279
bear the gaiety and headed for the cloakroom, but she
1374
01:15:07.399 --> 01:15:11.520
was way light by Nick. Look we're both unhappy, he whispered.
1375
01:15:11.760 --> 01:15:13.560
Judy won't have anything to do with me except as
1376
01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:15.720
a friend, and she won't even talk to me tonight.
1377
01:15:16.199 --> 01:15:20.199
I'm so lonely and miserable, Kate. I need you come
1378
01:15:20.239 --> 01:15:26.520
to my room, darling, Kate. So he's let's sad, I'm sad,
1379
01:15:26.760 --> 01:15:30.680
you're sad. Let's broken hearts club together, baby, and she's like,
1380
01:15:31.239 --> 01:15:35.640
to her surprise, Kate considered it, I would be really
1381
01:15:35.720 --> 01:15:37.359
nice to have the warmth of a man's arms after
1382
01:15:37.399 --> 01:15:39.479
the pain of projection. Well, I don't know, how do
1383
01:15:39.520 --> 01:15:41.439
we fix it? And then they go over like, all right,
1384
01:15:42.119 --> 01:15:44.199
you come up to my room, come back down, Pagan
1385
01:15:44.239 --> 01:15:45.960
will go home. Peg'll let you in the back door
1386
01:15:46.239 --> 01:15:48.960
five am. So be there at five am or whatever.
1387
01:15:49.000 --> 01:15:51.279
Because Pagan is obviously not going to go home with
1388
01:15:51.359 --> 01:15:56.399
the Prince because that's untour and everyone would know. So
1389
01:15:56.399 --> 01:15:59.199
they're like, all right, fuck it, I'll go And so
1390
01:15:59.319 --> 01:16:02.479
she goes back to discuss the possibilities with Maxine, who
1391
01:16:02.520 --> 01:16:06.199
was slightly tipsy after two glasses of champagne. Pierre wants
1392
01:16:06.199 --> 01:16:09.000
me to stay too, she said, obviously longing to do so.
1393
01:16:09.399 --> 01:16:11.600
Is he going to take you to the team Chalet. No,
1394
01:16:12.159 --> 01:16:16.039
he's booked a room upstairs just in case. Kate was impressed.
1395
01:16:16.079 --> 01:16:19.119
Goodness on the off chance. How expensive? So now the Tuto,
1396
01:16:19.279 --> 01:16:22.000
Maxine and Kate now want to hook up with Pierre
1397
01:16:22.479 --> 01:16:27.119
and Nick, respectively, and they're like, all right, well, sneak
1398
01:16:27.199 --> 01:16:28.960
up and Pagan will go home and let us in.
1399
01:16:30.840 --> 01:16:33.079
I don't think we dared. They signaled across the room
1400
01:16:33.279 --> 01:16:38.199
to Pagan, and then they rushed into the cloak. Stay.
1401
01:16:38.479 --> 01:16:41.159
Pagan exclaimed, how can I possibly stay? Everyone? But no,
1402
01:16:41.720 --> 01:16:43.680
I'll let you in at five, But for Heaven's sake,
1403
01:16:43.800 --> 01:16:44.439
don't be late.
1404
01:16:46.319 --> 01:16:49.039
So Pagan, don't let them do it. They're gonna get caught.
1405
01:16:49.680 --> 01:16:54.199
So at one o'clock, Kate and Maxine climbed onto the bus.
1406
01:16:54.880 --> 01:16:57.640
They were just ahead of Pagan, who created a diversion
1407
01:16:58.199 --> 01:17:01.039
by fussing loudly as she held her heartnell skirts over
1408
01:17:01.079 --> 01:17:04.159
the grimy steps and nearly managed to knock Mademoiselle into
1409
01:17:04.199 --> 01:17:07.520
the gutter as Kate and Maxine slipped out the other door.
1410
01:17:08.199 --> 01:17:14.000
So the bus has two doors, and Maxine is like, man, oh, sorry,
1411
01:17:16.520 --> 01:17:18.359
but the girls have already been seen getting on the buzz.
1412
01:17:19.640 --> 01:17:22.479
Pagan is a fucking fuss. She's stepping all over the
1413
01:17:22.600 --> 01:17:28.800
Mademoiselle and then the girl sneak away, so she gets
1414
01:17:28.800 --> 01:17:31.239
into the room of Nick. Two of them become very
1415
01:17:31.239 --> 01:17:34.239
cozy and comfortable. They do like each other quite a lot,
1416
01:17:34.800 --> 01:17:37.720
and there's a little bit of cuddling first, where he
1417
01:17:38.039 --> 01:17:40.560
hugs her and he holds his head to his chest
1418
01:17:40.760 --> 01:17:45.000
and he pets her hair, and once she relaxes, once
1419
01:17:45.039 --> 01:17:48.840
she feels relaxed, he kisses her on the head and
1420
01:17:48.880 --> 01:17:52.000
then on the cheeks. Okay, he kisses her on the cheek,
1421
01:17:52.279 --> 01:17:54.880
but he won't kiss her on the lips because that's
1422
01:17:54.920 --> 01:17:58.760
his measure of treachery, still private measure of treachery. He's
1423
01:17:58.800 --> 01:18:00.880
like the line I don't want to cross. He'll feel
1424
01:18:00.920 --> 01:18:03.279
kind of naughty, So he doesn't kiss her on the lips.
1425
01:18:03.319 --> 01:18:05.279
And then she's like, fuck you, grab him, kisses him
1426
01:18:05.279 --> 01:18:08.279
on the lips. Kissed her with all the pent up ardor.
1427
01:18:08.319 --> 01:18:09.800
And then he kisses her with all the pent up
1428
01:18:09.880 --> 01:18:13.159
ardor of his eighteen years and the accumulated anxiety and
1429
01:18:13.199 --> 01:18:16.119
pain of the last eight months. That Kate kiss seemed
1430
01:18:16.119 --> 01:18:18.600
to last for half an hour. He couldn't bear to
1431
01:18:18.680 --> 01:18:21.239
leave her mouth. He felt himself drowning in her fragrance
1432
01:18:21.439 --> 01:18:24.520
and the soft feel of her body, warm though through
1433
01:18:24.560 --> 01:18:29.319
the increasingly creased cream. Dafta. Oh, then the taffeta was
1434
01:18:29.359 --> 01:18:32.279
thrown to the floor and he's softly kissing her breasts
1435
01:18:32.760 --> 01:18:35.840
under the blankets, he murmured, but oddly that was Kate's
1436
01:18:35.880 --> 01:18:38.039
measure of treasury. So they lay on top of the
1437
01:18:38.079 --> 01:18:40.880
tangle of half shed clothes. She's like, no, if I
1438
01:18:40.920 --> 01:18:45.760
get in bed with you and I'm cheating, and if
1439
01:18:45.840 --> 01:18:47.800
I kiss you on the lips, then I'm betraying my
1440
01:18:47.960 --> 01:18:55.479
love for Judy. So they kiss, kiss, canoodle, lay triumph.
1441
01:18:55.520 --> 01:18:58.840
Nick lay triumphantly naked on top of Kate's yearning body.
1442
01:18:59.399 --> 01:19:02.079
But something was quite right, thought Kate, as she slid
1443
01:19:02.119 --> 01:19:04.760
one arm down Nick's body to caress him with her hand.
1444
01:19:05.039 --> 01:19:07.840
It was as if he's done it already. As she
1445
01:19:07.960 --> 01:19:11.239
touched him, Nick flinched, then kissed her with renewed ardor,
1446
01:19:11.319 --> 01:19:13.720
moving himself away from her hand. Ten minutes later, she
1447
01:19:13.720 --> 01:19:17.039
feels him again. Oh it's something's wrong. Little pouches and
1448
01:19:17.159 --> 01:19:22.359
limp flesh against the bomb, Nick again removed. They both
1449
01:19:22.359 --> 01:19:25.640
felt embarrassed. They neither of them knew what to do next.
1450
01:19:26.319 --> 01:19:28.600
In a frenzy of misery, they threw their arms around
1451
01:19:28.640 --> 01:19:32.159
each other and cuddled tenderly as friends, warm and comforted
1452
01:19:32.239 --> 01:19:35.680
in each other's arms, but they both felt sad. So
1453
01:19:35.760 --> 01:19:37.640
they try to hook up, but like he couldn't get
1454
01:19:37.640 --> 01:19:41.760
there and make it happen. Yeah, yeah, because that's just
1455
01:19:41.800 --> 01:19:44.640
not the relationship. It's just not how they are. He's
1456
01:19:44.640 --> 01:19:47.840
in love with Judy. She's just looking for comfort and
1457
01:19:47.920 --> 01:19:51.479
he just probably feels too, I don't know, like familial
1458
01:19:51.720 --> 01:19:53.520
or if it's just weird, you know.
1459
01:19:53.680 --> 01:19:54.119
I get it.
1460
01:19:54.239 --> 01:19:57.119
Yep, this is exactly why we could never hook up.
1461
01:19:57.239 --> 01:19:59.520
Oh god, it would just be as much as you
1462
01:19:59.600 --> 01:20:05.520
press side try, but it'd just be a mushing contest.
1463
01:20:05.560 --> 01:20:09.279
I don't know, I don't know the expressions. It's not
1464
01:20:09.319 --> 01:20:11.600
a problem that's ever happened to me, just us guys.
1465
01:20:11.640 --> 01:20:12.199
We've tried.
1466
01:20:12.239 --> 01:20:15.199
It didn't work. Just a lot of cranked and I
1467
01:20:15.439 --> 01:20:16.800
cranked and I cranked.
1468
01:20:16.600 --> 01:20:19.760
A lot of smushing and awkwards luck giggles. But we
1469
01:20:19.760 --> 01:20:24.600
were both very funny about the whole thing was especially
1470
01:20:25.119 --> 01:20:28.199
but where you smashed mys try to get them to work.
1471
01:20:32.720 --> 01:20:35.520
Vaccine crunched down in the snow and the snow covered
1472
01:20:35.560 --> 01:20:38.199
blue shadowed street towards Kate, who was shivering under the
1473
01:20:38.199 --> 01:20:41.359
street lamp. Without a word. They clasped it in hands
1474
01:20:41.640 --> 01:20:46.520
and go back in and are fucking immediately caught no
1475
01:20:46.680 --> 01:20:49.720
by the matron. She was waiting at the door for them.
1476
01:20:50.680 --> 01:20:54.279
The door flings open. You should be a shamed of yourselves.
1477
01:20:54.800 --> 01:21:01.960
Your guard, my head masters. She'd rags for him. The
1478
01:21:02.039 --> 01:21:06.760
two girls immediately to Shardon's office, so something happened. She
1479
01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:09.159
knew they were out and she was waiting for them,
1480
01:21:09.319 --> 01:21:13.239
and they get to show Dan and Shardon, by the way,
1481
01:21:13.720 --> 01:21:16.680
is pacing around in a maroon silk dressing gown.
1482
01:21:17.000 --> 01:21:27.640
Okay cool, so yeah, yeah, Monsieurgean.
1483
01:21:30.119 --> 01:21:34.119
Yeah, so he's Pagan wrapped in her shabby camel's hair.
1484
01:21:34.720 --> 01:21:37.880
Jaeger dressing around on the lines of a monk's habit,
1485
01:21:37.960 --> 01:21:42.920
but yanked around her waist is also there. She looked unhappy.
1486
01:21:43.239 --> 01:21:45.359
She had been awakened at three o'clock in that morning
1487
01:21:45.399 --> 01:21:48.079
by Matron, whose white hair hung in a long plate
1488
01:21:48.439 --> 01:21:51.680
over her dressing gown. Pagan's mother had been on the telephone.
1489
01:21:51.920 --> 01:21:55.039
Her grandfather had suffered a massive heart attack that afternoon,
1490
01:21:55.319 --> 01:21:58.039
had collapsed in the stables and died shortly after midnight.
1491
01:21:58.119 --> 01:22:00.760
But that meant Matron came to wake her up in
1492
01:22:01.640 --> 01:22:02.119
the room.
1493
01:22:02.279 --> 01:22:07.199
Pagan was to return to England immediately. So so the
1494
01:22:07.279 --> 01:22:09.199
matron comes in to say, I'm sorry to tell you,
1495
01:22:09.239 --> 01:22:10.880
but your grandfather has died, you need to go back
1496
01:22:10.920 --> 01:22:13.319
to England immediately. And then she goes, where the fuck
1497
01:22:13.359 --> 01:22:15.760
are the other girls? Yeah, so Pagan's in her room.
1498
01:22:15.840 --> 01:22:18.479
She goes to see Pagan, but fucking the two girls
1499
01:22:18.479 --> 01:22:18.760
are gone.
1500
01:22:18.920 --> 01:22:20.640
J Pagan has no choice but to be like.
1501
01:22:21.039 --> 01:22:23.239
I don't think she rats them out. Yeah, she says, like,
1502
01:22:23.439 --> 01:22:26.319
I don't know, I don't know anything now. Suddenly Kate
1503
01:22:26.359 --> 01:22:29.439
and Maxine faced reality. Shivering in their overcoats and the
1504
01:22:29.479 --> 01:22:33.359
unheated study, they trembled in front of shaw Dan, terrified
1505
01:22:33.399 --> 01:22:36.000
of facing their parents. The soft pink petals of Kate's
1506
01:22:36.000 --> 01:22:38.800
wilting rose floated to the floor, leaving only the long,
1507
01:22:38.880 --> 01:22:42.239
thorny stem of her hand in her hand. Then shaw
1508
01:22:42.359 --> 01:22:47.119
Dan exploded. He hurled every insult at them, from ingratitude
1509
01:22:47.279 --> 01:22:51.159
to wared them until he finished pointing a chubby finger
1510
01:22:51.159 --> 01:22:55.359
at Kate and shrieking out to you, you pull, you
1511
01:22:55.560 --> 01:22:59.039
chase every pair of pants in town, at which the
1512
01:22:59.079 --> 01:23:03.079
Irish and Kate rose again, and she replied, so do you, missieur.
1513
01:23:04.479 --> 01:23:07.880
There was a nasty silence. Then Shadan said, with venom
1514
01:23:08.279 --> 01:23:13.359
you'd both be expelled friend and skirting that I'm gonna
1515
01:23:13.399 --> 01:23:15.640
just do him as the as Emperor Palpatine or something.
1516
01:23:15.640 --> 01:23:17.800
Like the gayest Palpatine of all time.
1517
01:23:18.880 --> 01:23:28.319
You'd both be expelled, and then Pagan goes, no, they won't,
1518
01:23:28.960 --> 01:23:33.520
said Pagan in a tired, oddly disinterested voice. Il Chardane
1519
01:23:33.600 --> 01:23:36.000
turned to her, and who are you missed to tell
1520
01:23:36.079 --> 01:23:39.399
me what to do. I'm a friend of your friend Paul.
1521
01:23:40.119 --> 01:23:42.159
He took me to his house and showed me lots
1522
01:23:42.159 --> 01:23:45.279
of photographs. I think that he'd missed. I didn't think
1523
01:23:45.279 --> 01:23:48.079
he'd miss them, so I stole a few and left
1524
01:23:48.119 --> 01:23:52.279
them with a friend in town. But here's one. She
1525
01:23:52.399 --> 01:23:55.159
felt in her dressing gown pocket and produced a photograph
1526
01:23:55.239 --> 01:23:58.720
of Paul in bed with the two little South African
1527
01:23:58.760 --> 01:24:03.119
girls who had left so suddenly over Christmas. Pagan showed
1528
01:24:03.159 --> 01:24:07.119
the first photograph to Matron, then to Shadan. Then she
1529
01:24:07.199 --> 01:24:09.720
put it back in her pocket and produced her trump card,
1530
01:24:10.159 --> 01:24:14.920
a photograph of Monsieur himself plump and naked, and a
1531
01:24:15.079 --> 01:24:21.560
baby poised over the naked body of Paul. Of course,
1532
01:24:21.119 --> 01:24:26.119
of course, Paul has black mail material on Charden, and
1533
01:24:26.159 --> 01:24:28.479
he just leaves it lying around with his other black
1534
01:24:28.520 --> 01:24:32.119
male material because he's got to protect himself from Chardan too,
1535
01:24:32.119 --> 01:24:35.960
in their whole scheme, and she found it. And Paul
1536
01:24:36.079 --> 01:24:39.880
is drunk and clumsy and fucking inept and a piece.
1537
01:24:39.600 --> 01:24:41.680
Of shit, and she's smart as hell, and.
1538
01:24:41.560 --> 01:24:46.159
She smart as hell in fucking pockets black and both genius.
1539
01:24:46.199 --> 01:24:48.119
That she gives up probably give something to Nick.
1540
01:24:48.760 --> 01:24:51.880
Who knows, or Judy or or she didn't. Then it's
1541
01:24:51.880 --> 01:24:56.000
a lie either, but brilliant nothing he could risk calling
1542
01:24:56.079 --> 01:24:59.399
her bluff on, So she she has fucking Chardan's this.
1543
01:24:59.640 --> 01:25:02.920
This prontation goes on for four paragraphs before Pagan has
1544
01:25:02.920 --> 01:25:09.520
his balls and a vice. Uh huh, happy snaps, said Pagan,
1545
01:25:09.600 --> 01:25:14.600
with disinterested weariness. Happy snaps about the photographs. Had little
1546
01:25:14.600 --> 01:25:19.319
snaps yesterday, this scene would have been dramatic and terrifying.
1547
01:25:19.359 --> 01:25:23.119
Today it was trivial compared to her grandfather's Yeah, compared
1548
01:25:23.119 --> 01:25:27.000
to her grandfather's death. I can't help thinking that your
1549
01:25:27.039 --> 01:25:29.680
scheme only works if you play one father at a time.
1550
01:25:30.000 --> 01:25:33.159
If any father had seen photographs of more than one girl,
1551
01:25:33.439 --> 01:25:35.119
it would have been a parent that you were, in
1552
01:25:35.159 --> 01:25:39.119
fact a cheap blackmailer, Monsieur shah Dang, and that you
1553
01:25:39.319 --> 01:25:43.359
deliberately set those girls up to be photographed by Paul anyway.
1554
01:25:43.399 --> 01:25:46.239
He told me all about it. Nobody spoke or moved.
1555
01:25:46.880 --> 01:25:49.119
I think, he said. The going rate for fathers is
1556
01:25:49.119 --> 01:25:52.760
six thousand francs every three months. I don't really know
1557
01:25:52.840 --> 01:25:54.680
what to do about it, but if you take any
1558
01:25:54.720 --> 01:25:57.800
action against Maxine and Kate, I'm going straight to the
1559
01:25:57.840 --> 01:26:00.560
police and my story and the with my story and
1560
01:26:00.680 --> 01:26:05.319
the other photographs. So it's your decision. Monsieur Shadan Chardin
1561
01:26:05.399 --> 01:26:08.800
stood silent for a moment. Then he farten shot his pants, Yeah,
1562
01:26:08.960 --> 01:26:12.840
pissed his pants and died. Then smiled in a forced voice.
1563
01:26:12.840 --> 01:26:16.279
He said, miss, you are no doubt over wrought because
1564
01:26:16.279 --> 01:26:19.760
of your grandfather's sad death. Therefore, I shall take no
1565
01:26:19.960 --> 01:26:23.560
notice of your ridiculous accusations. And because I do not
1566
01:26:23.680 --> 01:26:26.640
want to bring disgrace upon my school, I will not
1567
01:26:26.680 --> 01:26:31.319
punish these two foolish girls. He cleared his throat and
1568
01:26:31.439 --> 01:26:34.640
paused to regain his authority. But I trust that they
1569
01:26:34.680 --> 01:26:38.199
realize the seriousness of their folly. It is just lucky
1570
01:26:38.600 --> 01:26:42.359
that none of your set is pregnant. Now get to bed,
1571
01:26:42.479 --> 01:26:46.159
all of you. The exhausted, frightened girl stumbled off to bed,
1572
01:26:46.439 --> 01:26:49.560
weak with relief. There was no need for further anxiety,
1573
01:26:49.640 --> 01:26:53.279
they thought as they wearily undressed. But they were wrong,
1574
01:26:53.760 --> 01:26:57.039
and so was the headmaster, because one of their set
1575
01:26:57.600 --> 01:27:08.199
was pregnanto it pregnant Aaron, will you put in like
1576
01:27:08.239 --> 01:27:10.000
a done done dun?
1577
01:27:10.560 --> 01:27:12.720
You always ask and he never does it.
1578
01:27:12.800 --> 01:27:16.199
There you go. End of poked one, beginning of pocked
1579
01:27:16.920 --> 01:27:20.239
Oh Ship chapter seven, one hundred and six pages in
1580
01:27:21.199 --> 01:27:24.840
uh begins next damn. There you have it.
1581
01:27:25.039 --> 01:27:25.920
I can't wait.
1582
01:27:26.000 --> 01:27:28.600
How fucking sick is that?
1583
01:27:28.960 --> 01:27:33.399
I wish that Shardon Sharp Sharp Boy and Paul were dead.
1584
01:27:33.760 --> 01:27:37.439
But the second best thing that could happen was we
1585
01:27:37.520 --> 01:27:38.399
caught you.
1586
01:27:38.399 --> 01:27:41.600
You're not gonna do ship and watch yourself.
1587
01:27:41.760 --> 01:27:42.760
I'm gonna So.
1588
01:27:42.880 --> 01:27:45.279
The other thing that's interesting about this is they know
1589
01:27:45.439 --> 01:27:48.359
this ship and have this material. They could just wait
1590
01:27:48.439 --> 01:27:51.439
until they're out of and fucking drop that ship on
1591
01:27:51.520 --> 01:27:52.880
them to protect once.
1592
01:27:53.520 --> 01:27:55.279
Get those guys out as soon as he has.
1593
01:27:55.159 --> 01:27:58.720
No more power over them. The only thing is there's
1594
01:27:58.720 --> 01:28:01.800
a photograph of Hagan out there, so they do have
1595
01:28:01.840 --> 01:28:03.560
a little bit of datonte, like a little bit of
1596
01:28:03.680 --> 01:28:06.520
mutually assured destruction. What I would do is I would
1597
01:28:06.520 --> 01:28:09.920
go to Abdullah and be like, hey, I don't want
1598
01:28:09.920 --> 01:28:11.960
to talk about it. But I have some photographs you
1599
01:28:12.000 --> 01:28:14.399
need to destroy in a guy named Paul's house. Also
1600
01:28:14.560 --> 01:28:16.800
beat the shit out of him. Yep, don't kill him,
1601
01:28:17.079 --> 01:28:19.319
but do hurt him. And if you can find anything
1602
01:28:19.359 --> 01:28:22.039
illegal in his house, they take it and will blackmail
1603
01:28:22.079 --> 01:28:24.000
him with it. But I have a photograph you need
1604
01:28:24.039 --> 01:28:27.479
to destroy. I mean, I definitely would stick the fucking
1605
01:28:28.000 --> 01:28:31.760
chik's bodyguards on him in a heartbeat. But yeah, so,
1606
01:28:32.039 --> 01:28:36.880
but so she does. She uses her own intelligence wherewithal
1607
01:28:36.920 --> 01:28:41.239
and she and she fucking counters's attempts to blackmail both
1608
01:28:41.279 --> 01:28:44.560
she and her friends. And so we end part one
1609
01:28:44.680 --> 01:28:48.520
on this like fucking victory where she had the presence
1610
01:28:48.560 --> 01:28:52.279
of mind to protect herself and counter this disgusting thing
1611
01:28:52.319 --> 01:28:54.359
that they just have to do to her. So she
1612
01:28:54.439 --> 01:28:58.199
shows she's a fucking boss bitch. What a fucking queen
1613
01:28:58.720 --> 01:29:02.119
and maybe a queen maybe maybe a real queen, maybe
1614
01:29:02.159 --> 01:29:04.439
a future queen and waiting and maybe a queen.
1615
01:29:05.159 --> 01:29:07.319
She's not a real queen in the future because she's single.
1616
01:29:07.520 --> 01:29:10.399
No, but maybe I wonder if she marries the chic
1617
01:29:10.479 --> 01:29:12.119
for I wonder if he dies or something.
1618
01:29:12.319 --> 01:29:16.680
Oh maybe, yeah, I think I think.
1619
01:29:16.640 --> 01:29:19.079
I think they might. I think they might end up together.
1620
01:29:19.359 --> 01:29:22.479
I think she's at least gonna go behind him to
1621
01:29:22.600 --> 01:29:25.079
his I think that she's at least gonna like spend
1622
01:29:25.079 --> 01:29:26.720
time in the Middle East with him. Oh, I can
1623
01:29:26.840 --> 01:29:31.479
imagine this like Lrentzia of Arabia moment for her in
1624
01:29:31.520 --> 01:29:34.039
the future, and I really hope we get that. But yeah,
1625
01:29:34.279 --> 01:29:36.840
what a star, what a queen? What a chapter? What
1626
01:29:36.920 --> 01:29:37.359
a chapter?
1627
01:29:37.520 --> 01:29:38.319
What a set?
1628
01:29:38.600 --> 01:29:42.159
Yeah? Crop, but one of their set is pregnant?
1629
01:29:42.359 --> 01:29:43.039
Is pregnant?
1630
01:29:43.399 --> 01:29:46.880
What if it's Judy that would be of That would
1631
01:29:46.920 --> 01:29:48.439
be a shock. That would be a shock.
1632
01:29:48.239 --> 01:29:50.880
Because she's the only one who's like sexploits. We haven't gotten.
1633
01:29:51.000 --> 01:29:52.079
We haven't gotten any of it.
1634
01:29:52.199 --> 01:29:53.880
I'm not having any I don't I don't have time
1635
01:29:53.920 --> 01:29:54.199
for men.
1636
01:29:54.680 --> 01:29:58.079
Yeah, I feel like we would, we would know, but
1637
01:29:58.760 --> 01:30:02.079
that may have happened. And honestly, off camera, maybe she
1638
01:30:02.159 --> 01:30:05.239
met somebody within the last couple of weeks. It's why,
1639
01:30:05.439 --> 01:30:07.520
Oh remember Nick says that thing about she won't even
1640
01:30:07.560 --> 01:30:10.479
talk to me tonight. I wonder if it's maybe because
1641
01:30:10.520 --> 01:30:13.000
she feels bad because oh, I've follow.
1642
01:30:14.520 --> 01:30:15.960
It's not that I don't want any man, it's that
1643
01:30:16.000 --> 01:30:16.520
I don't want that.
1644
01:30:16.760 --> 01:30:19.000
Which was true. What's true is she was like, oh,
1645
01:30:19.159 --> 01:30:21.159
I don't have time for men, but what if she
1646
01:30:21.199 --> 01:30:24.439
met somebody that made her reconsider that? Anyway, We will
1647
01:30:24.479 --> 01:30:26.520
find out all these things later. We will find out
1648
01:30:26.600 --> 01:30:30.479
who is pregnant eventually, although even just one of the characters.
1649
01:30:30.079 --> 01:30:32.439
Being doesn't necessarily mean that's even having a.
1650
01:30:32.520 --> 01:30:36.319
Child does not mean that she is our lace culprit.
1651
01:30:36.600 --> 01:30:42.760
It's a culprit, but like reveal our reverse Mama Mia reversea.
1652
01:30:43.479 --> 01:30:47.399
So yeah, we'll have to just keep chugging away, Apiece,
1653
01:30:47.479 --> 01:30:48.079
I can't wait.
1654
01:30:52.960 --> 01:30:56.000
Thank you for listening to Passages.
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01:30:56.640 --> 01:30:57.239
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01:30:58.079 --> 01:31:01.079
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1657
01:31:00.520 --> 01:31:05.279
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01:31:06.239 --> 01:31:12.159
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01:31:12.199 --> 01:31:18.560
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about graphic and explicit content, we want to note that
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this book specifically contains subject matter around abortion, sexual assault,
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of age. Listener discretion is extra advised. Passages contains graphic
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Welcome, Oh yeah, welcome to Passages. Passages which one of
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you bitches is my mother.
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To find the answers. Lily will be taken to worlds
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of horny, excess, luxury, power, op a lands. Don't you
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mean opulence, I don't.
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Aristocrats, magnates, and so much.
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Six hundred pages, five continents, and four life stories of
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women as strong, elegant and full of holes as place.
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Dude, I feel like we, oh wait, are we even
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not recording that? Are we recording it? Aaron?
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Aaron doesn't know what's happening.
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Uh yeah, yeah, we might as well be. So we are,
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by the way, five chapters, and this is crazy, and
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I feel like we've read eight books. Hello, welcome to Passages.
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This book.
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This book, this book that's strong and sturdy and complexible.
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What's interesting is they aren't plot holes.
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No, they're they're the.
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Whole of women, the strong independent.
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Yes, and we did talk about this pretty in depth
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last episode. Sorry, I just hit it strong marijuana.
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She just.
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But I think this book is so good at well,
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it's great period but it's really well written. But it's
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really good at taking you like the tone shifts are
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not shifts, they are shocking. Yes, uh sudden, the rug
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is being absolutely fucking yanked out from under you. You're
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in these like innocent, joyful, exciting, beautiful moment and then
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you're then one of our protagonists is literally handcuffed to
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a bed by an adult man.
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She's sixteen and a fucking raped. Yes, there no other
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it does because it's a little I went back and
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read that that part because I to face it. Yes,
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and it's really it's really bad, but it's it's a
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little ambiguous about this happening exactly because she's a she
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was drugs.
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It's her POV.
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It's her POV, and she doesn't really know what she doesn't.
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Know everything's happening. But that's what I was trying to capture.
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I think last time was like how it's so effective
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without needing every detail. It can be ambiguous, and it
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was chilling.
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It's chilling, but it's not it's not graphs.
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It's not gratuitous.
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I wouldn't say gratuitous or graph.
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No, but it doesn't need to be because the reader,
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if you know, she's done such a good job of
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connecting you to these characters and allowing the reader to
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kind of PLoP into each of their worlds at any
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given moment depending on who is like quote unquote on
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screen that you don't need all of this extra really
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graphic shit. Now.
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It moves really quickly through very like a lot of
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deep material, but it's really good at like jump nimbly
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jumping in and out of the heads of the characters,
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because it is like an omniscient narrator, it is, but
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it jumps into her head and gives us the way
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she felt about this this attack, and she doesn't even
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have the the context to come to like really even
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know what happened.
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I want to know what something that's crazy.
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She never says I was raped, No, she which is
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what happened? Yep, she says like later on as she's
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going forward, she's like, oh, I just had this awful,
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awful experience with with the with the driver. She calls
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it this ugly experience. Not she doesn't have the language
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the structure to like.
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about the writing is that obviously, So to recap the
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last chapter, which is relevant here, Yeah, the three of
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the four of our girlies kind of have their first
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sexual encounter. One is not.
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very much up to her how she felt about that.
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for sure, and it was not a pleasurable experience. He's
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he's a piece of ship.
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Loving bumbling.
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Ski professional, and then we get this full blown.
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friend Kate.
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No, it's it's Maxine friends.
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Up with Kate is with uh Franois. So I'm trying
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to get all these nets. I I don't know if
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you could tell, but I was so stoned last episode
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that has to be basically not forming me.
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We're going to try to just outdo that every week,
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but it goes back and forth. So it's my week
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to listen.
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So I get to get crazy. You can get you
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get to get crazy. I have I have to be
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able to get to this because's a lot of material.
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from Pagan covering up for this adorable innocent trists trying
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to sneak her back in, and as part of that,
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she is like, well, I'll guess I'll go with this driver.
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To cover because then we get it. We get a
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co conspirator essentially. Yeah, but if I out and get
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him in trouble, then I have something on him and
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he can't turn us in.
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But unfortunately he slips something into her drink and photographs
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and take dirty pictures for this blackmail ring. Yep, yeah Jesus.
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But what I found.
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Funny, not necessarily funny, haha, but funny, Oh my god.
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is to like process through that episode that we recorded.
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On the way home, I was listening to the episode
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that had just been released. Yes, and we find out
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about Shark the fucking Headmaster, who he's a huge piece
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of shit whatever, and everybody's terrified of him, and we
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even made the like if we were joking, it's like
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what if they all kill him and then they have
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a shared secret?
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four girls together.
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But that I think is the main thing from the
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last episode, because Pagan can't remember some things something. But
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then she wakes up, she asks to go to the bathroom.
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He lets her go to the bathroom. She opens like
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a dresser drawer by the bathroom. She sees something in
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the top drawer and she reaches for it and then
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it cuts cut.
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So something happened between there and her getting hold back.
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my god, it's five in the morning, like where have
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you been?
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We've been covering for you all night. She's like I
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got really drunk.
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I don't want to talk. I talk about this, And
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she is then like sick for two days. She has
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like flu and there's a gap and oh yes.
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Oh yes, we get to it. It is spectacular. Remember
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how you when you walked in I was like I
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love this book.
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That's a real roller coaster, just the way that life
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constantly blindsides you, especially when you're a young person who
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has not been given enough information. They don't know what
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This young girl does not even know that she has
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been assaulted, assaulted. She does not even know that that
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that she.
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You just feel that you've been violated without having no knowledge.
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She knows it was gross, she knows it was violating,
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but she does not seem to, throughout this next couple
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of chapters, be able to actually process what actually happened
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to her. And she just tries to like move on
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with their life like it was just a bad sexual
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encounter she had.
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assaulted Kate in their home. It is so I wonder
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if patterns are building. And not to say that Pagan
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is going to be someone who commits assault, but this
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is the kind of thing, but there's this weird connection. Yeah,
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and then how she's processing it is very much that's
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the lord behavior.
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From all of us. Just don't talk it. Yeah, it's
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a nasty thing, and we just don't talk about oh god,
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uh ah knock. But as as you're about to see,
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Pagan is a fucking queen and uh so so. So
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this book then proceeds to from this dark, dark low,
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because that's literally.
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Where we ended was. She gets back to the school
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and she's in the hospital for like three days, and
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then the chapter's done.
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even a little bit to give them a chance to
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figure out what the fuck happened. It comes at them
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with a literal prince. So Christmas print, it's a Christmas prince.
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Oh my god, she.
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Gets her own Christmas prince. Okay, she finds miss it's
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you will not You could guess what the next plot
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beat in Pagan's storyline is, and you would. It would
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take you a million years.
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Okay, I guess, But I'm not even gonna bother.
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I'm just gonna lock in and be ready for the ride.
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Light j like smack that jay. All right. Chapter five chat,
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So we were about to get through that. I get
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to I get to the end of part one in
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this so part.
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We might be moving out of their adolescent Yeah.
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We're probably gonna be late teens, early twenties.
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I have no idea. I have no idea what comes
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on and scared. I'm thinking it will be them out
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of school. I bet they'll jump until after prep school.
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But I don't know. I have no idea. You can't wait.
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We know that something must happen for them to disconnect
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because they're all surprised to see each other in the
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opening scene, and.
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That could easily be in their adulthood.
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It isn't their adulthood, but I'm saying it's seen.
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The picture that was painted to me was they were
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all very surprised to see each other. They hadn't seen
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each other in decades, and there's a reason why.
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But here, by the end of part one, they are sisters,
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like they are so tight, so close.
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The trauma bonded.
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They share traumas and secrets, and Joe and you will
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not I mean like after after part one, after finishing
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part one today, I'm like, well, they.
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I love them so much.
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I have to know each other for a lot longer,
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like they have to be. They have to be super
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bonded to each other. So I'm really excited to see
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what is in part two because this like them at
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school is so fucking sweet and puts them in such
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close proximity to each other. But I'm curious how we
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can keep those relationships gorong, because it seems like their
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lives are going to pull them in some really drastically
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different directions, allegedly, allegedly, maybe maybe we get a little
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bit of information about that. Right now, Yes, right now,
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begin the repression for chapter five. Okay, we're repressing all
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the horrors that we have seen dust as are the
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great repression. Ten days later, the resilience of youth had triumphed.
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Pagan had managed to convince herself that she had wiped
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that revolting incident out of her mind and could pretend
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it had never happened. Amazingly, the episode had not lowered
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her high spirits, and one Sunday afternoon, sparkling with restless energy, repression, repression, repression,
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she wheedled the other three into hiring the horse drawn
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red sleigh for an hour.
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Nothing traumatic, man nothing happened to me, Pagan, nothing at all.
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And she goes into a fucking full manic thing, and
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she takes them out on a sleigh ride. Off.
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You've never taken me on a sleigh ride. You're such
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a shit.
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I've never been joyful enough or repressing to go on
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a sleigh ride. Off. Cough the horse over the snow
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laced cobbles. The four girls huddled luxuriously under the ancient
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silver fox for rugs, jogging along to the jingle of
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the silver bells on the harness. They waved to pass
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her by as they drove through the fields outside the
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town and headed towards Sinnin. So we get this cozy
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cuddled the total whiplash is I know, I know, I
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love it. So the girls are playing around on the horse,
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and then Judy, being a little dumb dumb fucking gets
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up she doesn't know anything about horses and can't ride. Judy,
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who couldn't ride? This is Pagan's povy Wow. She flaps
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the reins and like does a little crack with the whip,
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just playing around the driving well. The driver is out
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of the carriage at the time, and she accidentally hits
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the mayor in the ear with the whip, and so
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the mayor is like mah and like fucking drags them
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off and Pagan is like running alongside and trying to
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get control of it.
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Again, did I tell you that this happened kind of
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in Ireland? What Bill and I were like just walking,
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just the two of us on a busy city street
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in double way.
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People I love have almost been trampled by horses.
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This is crazy and they have a bunch of the
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touristy we did it. Horse rawn carriage rides through Dublin's
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horse calves pettycabs and so this young kid, really he
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was maybe nineteen or twenty at the oldest, was working.
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He's like in his bright green I'm operating the horse
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drawn carriage cab with people in his cab, and we
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suddenly just heard like a slam, and from what we understand,
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a car hit the carriage, but then hit and ran
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and sped off. It's booked the horse, which bucked off
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the driver while the two people were still in the carriage,
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and the horse took off and the big giant carriage
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with two people in it ran over the driver and
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he was just laid out in the street. So Bill
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and I jumped into the street to like stop traffic,
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and other people were getting him out of the street.
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And then like he was kind of concussed and out
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of it. It was just like we laid him on
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the on the sidewalk and somebody called their equivalent of
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nine on one.
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And people were like checking.
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And meanwhile the horse and the two people who bought
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the cab were just long gone.
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We had no one before the word the horse was
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in charge now yeah.
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And then once an ambulance got there, Bill and I
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were liked, so should we just go because there's nothing
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else we can do about it.
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Literally, we would only be in the way.
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It was crazy, So we're pretty sure he broke something,
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at least a couple of rips. It was fine, I'm sure,
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But I want to hear the POV of the people
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in the carriage when Pagan fucking snapped the ear and
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then they went wild. So I think we're about to
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get it.
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So that's basically it. It's basically them going as they're
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pulled through the but they but Pagan knows, she knows horses.
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She catches up with it, gets control of the thing
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and the and hands back to this other driver comes
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by and helps, and but Pagan is fucking pissed. Yeah,
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She's like, how killed us? Yeah, you, how dare you
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hit that mare? How dare you make her reer and
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gallop on ice? You bloody idiot, get in the back.
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So Pagan like takes control of the situation. You stupid bitch,
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stupid bitch. Outside the stable, a man was waiting for them,
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A dark fellow wearing ski clothes and the arrogant air
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of a privileged servant, with a face devoid of expression
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except for a hint of hateur. He approached Pagan and
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gave a slight bow. So after they have this horse
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drawn carriage incident action scene, action scene, they are on
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their way back and just there's this guy waiting for Pagan.
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I don't know, he's just waiting for them back by
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this back by the he's older, but he works for
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someone who wants to meet you. So, my Master, his
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Royal Highness, the Crown Prince Abdullah wishes to invite you
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to meet him at the Imperial Hotel. And Pagan just
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goes and I'm the Queen of China. Yeah, choosing to
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listen to Junie's apologies. So Junius, he's trying to apologize.
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This guy is like, Prince Abdullah wants to meet you,
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and She's like yeah, yeah, and I'm from the Moon
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and just blows him off. And the guy is like,
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Karima Abdullah certainly is staying at the Imperial Pagan Judy says.
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Judy's like, listen, this guy just legit. Yeah, he's got
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two permanent sweets there while he's at school. So he's
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going to school at the school, but he can't can't
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stay on the grounds because they're much below his stature.
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Nick definitely knows him.
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Uh, I've seen him, but this guy certainly looks like
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one of his Arab bodyguards.
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Judy flung her pale blue scarf around her chin. Look,
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I must go. I'm doing the chessa but I'd consider
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the invitation. How often does a royal invite you to tea?
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So Judy is like trying to apologize, and it like
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quickly He's like, well, I know he's real, go with
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him trying, probably trying to butter Pagan prince okay, and
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then the other girls are like, oh my god, royalty
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like and then so they fucking go to meet him.
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I don't like Pagan continuously being whisked off by strange men.
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Yeah, poor girl.
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So wait, did the other girls come with her.
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Yes, so she's not going a lot. They're all going together,
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thank god. Okay. In a corner of the Great Hall,
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wearing all white ski clothes sat Prince Abdullah, upright and impatient,
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under winged eyebrows. He had the watchful look of a hawk,
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the eyes of a man who is used to being
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obeyed without moving his head. His eyes followed the girl's
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approach when he stood and said politely, so good of
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you to come. Wonderful weather we're having, don't you think.
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His English was clipped with only the faintest trace of
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an accent. The Prince waved a hand at the velvet
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chairs grouped around the table. They sat down and talked
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about the weather and the hotel and ski runs. The
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Prince's ramrod backed his arrogant, almost menacing calm proclaimed majesty,
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but sat oddly on the shoulders of an eighteen year
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old boy. Oh he's like their age, Pagan thought he
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would probably look more at home on an Arab horse
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than on that old green velvet hotel chair. She steered
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the conversation to horses, and the Prince smiled for the
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first time. From that moment, the other two girls might
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not have existed.
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So I love that they like feel hornylicious lust for
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the first time, and they're like, I'm in love.
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These boys the Prince. The Prince honestly makes He's like,
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I want to meet these girls. Bring them over, and
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he talks to the one and she knows about horses.
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He finds a moment of connection with one of these women,
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which I bet is very difficult for him given his upbringing,
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which is very intense and very violent and has an
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absurd amount of money flying around, so it causes all
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this danger. Oh wowsh is what they get. They talk
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about this pretty quickly, so we then cut to ahead
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in time to I suppose it's a snap. It's a
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smash cut because Pagan is just beating him at this
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card game. She's like, snap, and she beats him in
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this card game and he's like but so she's teaching
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him like nursery card games, and they're in his suite.
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She's literally laying on a polar bear skin rug in
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front of a giant fireplace playing cards with Prince Crown
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Prince Doula.
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Oh my god, I know, it's crazy literal fantasy.
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She's in a like a two thousand and four rom
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com movie with all of the the big choices that
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those made. Uh so he she's in his uh but
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teaching him card games like Racing Demon and Snap, which
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I don't know what those are. Racing Demon, Racing Demon.
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In private, Abdullah dropped his invisible cloak of majesty. It
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disappeared as soon as his bodyguards were dismissed with yeah, yeah,
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they this is actually very sweet. I'm starting to think
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you cheat yond Abdullah, who always cheated himself. His grin
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widened into a full lipped smile, showing white even teeth.
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As Abdullah twisted onto his side with an agile catlike
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movement that was somehow lazily dangerous. There was a shot
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crack from the adjoining room, and again this.
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Isn't a gunshot.
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This book proceeds to give the the the Okay, I
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thought we were on like a roller coaster. I don't
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think that's strong enough. Now we're on like one of
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those weird like tilted whirl whip around things that just
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like makes you go like.
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Ah, it's a power tower.
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That tower, like an absurd hydraulic lift that's like shooting
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you up and down.
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Because he hears a beautiful fantasy moment, and then like
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two pages there's a gun shot in the other fucking room.
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Yeah, and now there's this like crack, and Prince Abdullah
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draws a gun out of his fucking waistband and fucking
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James bonds like flipping and dodging into the next room,
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like clearing corners with this gun. That is like looking
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around thinking that there might be an attacker of some kind.
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Oh my god. And then he like checks the room.
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He looks out this like huge window down over the
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valley and then calms down and like lowers his weapon
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and he's like, uh he was standing beside the window
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wall looking out.
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I think it's like the fuck.
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I think a tree just fell. He said, I'm sorry
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I alarmed you, but I have to be careful. But
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the bodyguards gaps Pagan. The price of a bodyguard is low.
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I am in the same position as the poorest beggar
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in my kingdom. If I don't look after myself, no
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one will merry Christmas. Time. Listen to shopping as by.
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A thing or two, or don't just listen to the ads.
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You have to hear it. And uh so he talks
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about like how so his room is extremely bare, but
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the guest, like the receiving room is extremely opulent. And
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he talks about how he has He says that, like,
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Arabs have an uneasy luxury, you know, experience. But I
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think he's really talking about his experience. So he's like,
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I don't have an easy experience with luxury because like,
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I have to be so sharp because my life is
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in danger frequently, because I am at the head of
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this very wealthy power like family, family, in this group,
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and so like I have to be sharp and and
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and she's like, what are you so afraid of? H
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what do you think would have happened? And he goes
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on to about He goes on to tell her about
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all of the times that people try to kidnap and
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or assassinate him. Oh my god, which is one, two, three, four, five, five,
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like five ish time?
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Holy? She he's eighteen.
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Maybe a kidnap plot, maybe an assassination And do you
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really think that would have happened. The first kidnap attempt
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happened before I was a year old. My nurse was
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stoned to death for her part in the plot. The
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next attempt was when I was seven years old. I
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had a bodyguard pushed me under the bed, but they
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hauled me out, then stabbed him five times and left
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him for dead.
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Oh So when he said that the bodyguards are poor,
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essentially they're kind of low on the hierarchy, I think
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that could mean two things.
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Two things.
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One they're replaceable, so he can always get another one,
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and b they can't be trusted because if they could
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easily be manipulated into giving people.
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Access to me, which is something that has happened to
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him before, he has both been saved by his bodyguard
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trade and betrayed by bodyguards. And he's eighteen, Damn.
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His nurse when he was a baby.
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The fuck next attempt was when I was fourteen. We
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were returning from a hunting trip and the first land rover,
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so he imagine driving the first land rover. Damn yep.
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So then a bunch of people starts shooting at them,
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their guard shoot back. He shot twice, and again by
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one of his own guards in the leg accidentally. And
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so after that he's like, listen, I'm always going to
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have a gun. Yep. So footle she notices that there
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is a gun on his bedside table, so he has
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a gun on his person. A gun on his bend
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side table, and he talks about how he always drives
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around with a submachine gun to fucking defend himself if
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fucking shit goes down, because he's.
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Like, honestly, can't blame him, yeah for that logic.
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So, after he tells her all about all this crazy
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violence that he has gone through in his youth, after
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she has adorable evenings with him playing card games, yes,
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she then finds out, oh my gosh, he comes from
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a very turbulent background which is alien to me in
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every way. I cannot even imagine it. Yeah, there's a
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quiet knock at the door. Nick, wearing his waiters uniform,
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opened the door. The respectful look on his face dropped
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for an instant when he saw Pagan lulling on the
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bear skin. Hi, Nick, can you imagine going into Prince
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Abdula's room and seeing you're.
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What are your bestie?
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I'm on the bear skin and he's like, what are
488
00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:05.319
you doing?
489
00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:06.319
And it's you.
490
00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:11.640
I'm with the Prince now, man dad.
491
00:26:12.119 --> 00:26:14.000
What the fucking on?
492
00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:22.119
He showed me his guns? I didn't.
493
00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:27.240
I do not have nicks like yeah, ability to hold
494
00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:29.160
it back. I would lose my ship.
495
00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:32.400
What the fun is having. Abdullah ordered lemonade, and.
496
00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:33.519
It wouldn't really surprised.
497
00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:37.880
No, of course you're in here. You're naked with little rosy.
498
00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:43.440
But the man I'm with, the prince. Of course you are.
499
00:26:43.759 --> 00:26:47.200
Of course you are. Here's your cavio Robbie. He had
500
00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:54.440
him killed. He ordered lemonaded tea uh, And Abdula is
501
00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:57.640
still agitated, like a cat pacing around the house. And
502
00:26:57.640 --> 00:26:59.599
she's like, Pagan is like, stop prowling.
503
00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:00.839
It's just Nick, I.
504
00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:03.440
Have a restless spirit. If you never feel secure, then
505
00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:06.960
naturally you feel restless. Nick returned the laden tray and
506
00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:10.000
gave Abdullah another look of servile insolence as he stiffly
507
00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:11.559
bent and placed the tray on the low table on
508
00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:18.720
the velvet couch. Pagan winked at Nick, who ignored her.
509
00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.400
He can't stand Abdullah, she thought. I wonder why, not
510
00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:25.680
one muscle movement did Abdullah show that he had recognized Nick.
511
00:27:25.960 --> 00:27:29.039
But he had, and for one swift moment, Abdullah remembered
512
00:27:29.079 --> 00:27:32.799
the most humiliating moment of his life. So now we
513
00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:38.039
get an Abdullah flashback POV to his time at boarding school.
514
00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:41.160
I'm curious what the fuck this has to do with Nick.
515
00:27:41.319 --> 00:27:44.640
Yep, yeah, because Nick also goes to the same school.
516
00:27:45.160 --> 00:27:47.559
They knew each other before now and.
517
00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:51.759
They don't have any bad blood. But the Prince has
518
00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:55.680
big bad blood with these other boys. Oh, he's got
519
00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:59.400
big fucking anger towards these other boys because of the
520
00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:02.359
way they treat him. And we get the worst incident
521
00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:06.720
of his past at the boarding school, the most humiliating
522
00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:11.240
incident at the boarding school. So it starts with the
523
00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:13.640
scene where all the boys are gathered around this board
524
00:28:13.799 --> 00:28:16.240
that like the poster board or where all the like
525
00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:21.279
posters and flyers and things are putting corpord. Yeah, they
526
00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:23.079
call it a base board, but I don't know what
527
00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:26.480
that is. So there, they put up the list for
528
00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:28.559
who's going to be on the house team for football,
529
00:28:29.319 --> 00:28:30.640
and he made which.
530
00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:31.400
Is, of course soccer.
531
00:28:31.640 --> 00:28:40.599
Yes, yes, of course American, our American listeners soccer. Because
532
00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:43.000
no one could figure this out, No one knows this.
533
00:28:43.519 --> 00:28:46.880
So he is on the house team and he's so excited,
534
00:28:46.920 --> 00:28:51.920
he's like fist pumping excited about this. But Abdullah is also,
535
00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:54.759
interestingly the only boy without a surname, so it's all
536
00:28:54.799 --> 00:28:58.079
like John Winston and blah blah blah, and then just aulay,
537
00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:01.480
because he does have a he doesn't. He doesn't have
538
00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:03.640
a name. He has like probably a long series of titles.
539
00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:08.079
Abdullah didn't understand why every boy himself, include included, was
540
00:29:08.119 --> 00:29:11.200
equal of rank inside those stone walls. To Abdullah, the
541
00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:14.400
centuries old traditional top drawer British school was a hostile,
542
00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:19.400
incomprehensible world. Ignorant of the private language and rigid conversations
543
00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:22.880
of his school fellows, Abdullah did was what was not
544
00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:26.599
done and said what, according to eat and etiquette, should
545
00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:30.440
not be said. Okay, so he can't connect with these
546
00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:33.839
boys because he doesn't know their world and comes from
547
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:36.480
a different one. So he says, he probably just doesn't
548
00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:39.920
use like the same kind of decorum and edita he means.
549
00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:41.839
When he went exactly, he just speaks his mind.
550
00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:44.000
But now he's these are meant for talking aboutind each
551
00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:45.200
other's backs, not for just saying.
552
00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:47.400
He's like, listen, I can't make friends with these guys,
553
00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:50.119
but now I'm on the house team, maybe we can
554
00:29:50.519 --> 00:29:53.160
will be friends with them. They'll all be so proud
555
00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:54.640
of me and we'll all be buddies.
556
00:29:55.880 --> 00:29:56.880
All the innocence.
557
00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:02.720
Yes, uh So, each pupil had his own small room
558
00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:05.519
with a scarred wooden table, two chairs, and a narrow
559
00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:09.200
metal convertible bed. A bureau in a chest of Dulah
560
00:30:09.319 --> 00:30:11.240
was pretty much the same, except he has pictures of
561
00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:15.759
King George, a ceremonial uniform dedicated by King George, a
562
00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:19.319
prince of when Prince Abdullah was thirteen, taking a salute
563
00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:21.880
from the Sidonian Palace guard and getting a kiss on
564
00:30:21.880 --> 00:30:24.920
the cheek from Rita Hayworth. Hi God, it's the same
565
00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:26.119
room except his pictures.
566
00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:28.240
His pictures are very different, very.
567
00:30:28.119 --> 00:30:30.359
Very different from the rest of the boys. So this
568
00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:32.720
is back when he was younger and still living like
569
00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:36.440
actually in the boarding school, but now he's living nearby
570
00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:40.279
in the hotel. Got it. As Abdullah rummaged in his
571
00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:42.839
bureau for a missing Latin grammar, he heard voices that
572
00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:46.079
he recognized outside the door, and he sort of eavesdrops
573
00:30:46.119 --> 00:30:48.519
on these boys talking about him. Can you believe it?
574
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:51.720
Look haut in the baboons on the house's side. Oh
575
00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:55.960
my god, no bucking me. We can't can't think why
576
00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:59.359
they would have to have him in cool Ridges. I
577
00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:02.400
suppose he's not bad at dribbling, but he's always cornering
578
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:06.680
and sneaking am some N word lover will put him
579
00:31:06.759 --> 00:31:10.279
up for the pop next expect he'll get a record
580
00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:15.880
number of black balls. Black l ol, Oh my god,
581
00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:19.640
what colored balls? Do you think baboons have? Royal purple?
582
00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:20.279
Do you think?
583
00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:21.279
Stop?
584
00:31:21.559 --> 00:31:23.920
There was a burst of horse laughter as a bell
585
00:31:24.079 --> 00:31:26.799
rang and the malicious voices drifted away.
586
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:28.920
These little racist.
587
00:31:28.599 --> 00:31:33.000
Little racist fuckers managed to be all kinds of different
588
00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:35.720
sorts of racists, all back to back. Yes, And he
589
00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:41.640
hears this, this like dream of his, crushed that these
590
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:43.599
boys can accept him now that he has something in
591
00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:48.920
common with them, and then he essentially vows vengeance in
592
00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:54.759
the most perfect for this book, fucking get way. Possibly.
593
00:31:55.319 --> 00:32:00.680
He's like, I fucking don't dare confront them there. First
594
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:02.759
of all, they're all on the debate team, which makes
595
00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:05.440
them high status at this school. They're also good at
596
00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:10.440
arguing with the spoken words, with the spoken word, which
597
00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:12.799
is probably my second or third language.
598
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:16.160
But I've been targeted my whole life. Yeah, so I
599
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:19.039
can get them. I have is they never even fucking
600
00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:19.880
imagine I.
601
00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:23.039
And the way he comes up with is fucking amazing.
602
00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:26.319
He's like, who cares what those trash things they were
603
00:32:26.440 --> 00:32:30.200
destined to be merely farmers, soldiers or politician. I'm gonna
604
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:33.920
be a fucking king man beloved by many tries, cheered
605
00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:36.000
by men and women. And then he takes a deep
606
00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:45.000
breath and he's like women, He's like, I'm gonna fuck
607
00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:52.279
all their girlfriends. Yes, yes, so he I love him.
608
00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:56.599
He then goes those arrogant non entities hadn't been instructed
609
00:32:56.599 --> 00:33:00.559
for three weeks by the Hakiman Cairo, which we find
610
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:04.759
out later. We find out later is a like sex
611
00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:09.480
tutor mentor about how to pleasure women about they He
612
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:13.160
went for a three week intensive with this, like I
613
00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:16.759
don't know, like guru, lady pleasing guru.
614
00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:18.720
This should be required.
615
00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:22.759
I think there should just be like just everyone sex
616
00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:26.920
working professionals that are like all right, eighteen nineteen twenty,
617
00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:29.880
whenever you're ready, come here and we will we will
618
00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:34.200
show you how all this is here. Here's how smash
619
00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:39.440
the clin smash smash it, yank ye, then smash the clin,
620
00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:40.559
rip it, tear it with.
621
00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:45.279
You, leslie Nope, giving the condom to okay, put roll
622
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:45.799
it down.
623
00:33:48.559 --> 00:33:51.720
So he's like he's like plotting this. He's like shaking
624
00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:56.359
with rage, but is like he decided that he would
625
00:33:56.400 --> 00:33:57.359
have the women.
626
00:33:57.599 --> 00:33:59.559
Yeah fuck yeah, dude.
627
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:01.799
I was like, by the way, I have to point
628
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:08.559
out arrogant non entities is the fucking slam. I can
629
00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:09.599
fucking think of it.
630
00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:11.920
It's very much giving. I don't think about you at all.
631
00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:15.320
I don't think about you. Calling someone a non entity
632
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:21.920
is so fucking brutal that hurts. Okay, So Pagan goes
633
00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:25.639
up to Nick's room after this encounter because she's like,
634
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:29.800
I gotta find out why he is all pissy about Abdullah.
635
00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:32.519
And then Nick is like, when she walks in, is
636
00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:35.760
like slumming, he inquired coldly, as Pagan pecked him on
637
00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:36.159
the cheek.
638
00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:37.719
Oh my god, No.
639
00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:41.039
Just wondering why you can't stand Abdullah. You can't expect
640
00:34:41.039 --> 00:34:43.679
to have all the attention of all four of us,
641
00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:48.039
you know, especially when we know that you're besauted with Judy.
642
00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:52.960
The spring sag on as she sat on the iron bedstead.
643
00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:57.079
Nick looked unhappy. Your private license is none of my business,
644
00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:01.119
but what is Nick? Has Abdy already got a girl?
645
00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:04.519
I have no idea anyway, It's none of my business,
646
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:06.960
and I wouldn't tell you if I knew. But we
647
00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:09.440
were at school together. And I promise you that bastard
648
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:10.920
Abdullah is not what he seems.
649
00:35:11.159 --> 00:35:13.440
So Nick probably has this idea in his head that
650
00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:18.280
Abdullah is like a quote unquote manhore player and like
651
00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:22.000
he cares about Pagan exactly, You're just gonna be another
652
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:25.559
because he's with everyone at school. But he doesn't have
653
00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:28.599
the context of why why he did that, which is
654
00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:30.480
so which I think Nick might respect.
655
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:32.679
I actually think that if he was like, wait, wait, wait,
656
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:35.960
wait wait, you slept with their girlfriends, not just because
657
00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:40.280
you think women are this disposable commodity for your own pleasure,
658
00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:44.320
but has an act of revenge against them specifically, it
659
00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:46.440
is kind of cool. It is kind of interesting, it's
660
00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:47.159
fucking funny.
661
00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:50.519
It's obviously it's awful and like that's still a way
662
00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:54.800
to use women's.
663
00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:56.239
Terrible, But it is something that I am a teenage
664
00:35:56.400 --> 00:35:58.920
and like eighteen year old parents might come up with.
665
00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:02.119
Right and long as as long as he's not like
666
00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:08.039
assaulting women. If you're gonna if you're gonna like sleep around,
667
00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:12.159
then of course do it at school. When not everyone
668
00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:14.320
that you end up with is like gonna be the
669
00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:16.760
person you fucking marry. When it's like we're all fucking
670
00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:17.159
each other.
671
00:36:17.239 --> 00:36:19.599
The other thing that I like to think about is
672
00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:22.880
that it isn't even so much that he It's that
673
00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:25.239
it isn't even so much that he slept with their girlfriends.
674
00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:29.159
It's that he like showed them heights of pleasure that
675
00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:33.800
they never know again, and then their fucking dumpy, little
676
00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:36.960
non entity boyfriends could never do for them. And I
677
00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:39.199
like to imagine that it isn't even that they broke
678
00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:41.960
up because of the cheating, or he stole them away
679
00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:43.679
from them, which is probably what he actually did, right.
680
00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:46.840
He probably stole them away, break up, dated them, and
681
00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:50.079
then banged them. That's that's kind of seams his style.
682
00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:54.800
The back to these chuds and he's and they're just like,
683
00:36:55.039 --> 00:36:59.480
I will never touch me again. Ever, my standards have
684
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:03.760
been raised by a fucking Yeah. So Nick just knows
685
00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:06.960
that this guy gets around. He sleeps with a lot
686
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:10.159
of women. He sleeps with a bunch of people. I
687
00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:15.920
know his girlfriends probably. Yeah, of course women think he's irresistible.
688
00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:19.360
He's obviously attractive. It's not only that, said Pagan with
689
00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:22.159
a giggle. It's the stage props that are such fun.
690
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:25.159
The guns, the bodyguards and the flowing robes and the
691
00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:29.280
fierce black mustaches and the precautions. She was talking about
692
00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:31.440
the guns. Yeah, she saw that gun and she's like,
693
00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:35.599
oh no, what is this doing for me? Why to
694
00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:37.760
see him doing James Bond tuck'n' roll.
695
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:41.599
But you know what, after she's had such a violent experience,
696
00:37:41.800 --> 00:37:45.559
to be attracted to someone who could protect her makes
697
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:46.840
a ton of sense to me.
698
00:37:48.159 --> 00:37:50.960
So he goes on and he's like, well, you know,
699
00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:54.000
Abdullah uses women. He doesn't care about women, not the
700
00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:57.880
maids or chaps, as sisters or even mothers. So apparently,
701
00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:08.719
so apparently at least one of these non entities Abdullah
702
00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:14.599
banged their mom. He got, he got a girlfriend, a sister,
703
00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:19.039
and one of their moms. I fucking love it so much.
704
00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:22.079
I think Abdulah's my favorite.
705
00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:27.239
I love him so much. Interest fuck, you're gonna bang
706
00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:31.719
your but and not just bang them, make them multiple
707
00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:36.039
orgasm like your father could never give them nights of
708
00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:39.480
their lives. They will never forget. That makes it so
709
00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:42.920
much better to me. I love and when you find out,
710
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:44.920
when you get a little bit of like what he
711
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:52.119
Dula's powers later, I do I do think that that
712
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:55.079
is what happened is that they like went back, like
713
00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:57.400
change women.
714
00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:04.119
Ship, how hard they came changing the DNA forever.
715
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:09.079
They can't even see their husbands anymore. They just John,
716
00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:11.559
where are you? I'm right here. I don't I hear you.
717
00:39:11.519 --> 00:39:17.119
But I don't see your certainly feel you, ye okie,
718
00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:19.400
fucking shit, I.
719
00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:29.119
A best. Surely you don't mean it's Pagan, imagine exactly
720
00:39:29.159 --> 00:39:34.199
what we just imagine. And she's like, oh, he's just
721
00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:37.320
so he like Nick kind of chickens out of being
722
00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:39.360
too graphic about it. And it's like, well, he's just
723
00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:41.480
very objective about women. And he's like and she's like,
724
00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:45.039
he's objective about everybody, Like I don't care. She seems
725
00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:50.000
very pet chill passive about this. She's like, it's just
726
00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:51.199
some fun.
727
00:39:51.320 --> 00:39:52.639
Yeah, he's not my husband.
728
00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:57.840
I don't care that much. He's just a super fun distraction.
729
00:39:58.599 --> 00:40:04.880
I'm not bagging him. It's fine, like, and they talk
730
00:40:04.920 --> 00:40:08.639
about his combination of medaceine charm, which I love, and
731
00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:11.639
Nick is essentially just like he's no gentleman, and Pagan
732
00:40:11.679 --> 00:40:14.960
throws her head back and laughed. Darling Nick, she said,
733
00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:16.599
you're such an old auntie.
734
00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:18.599
He is.
735
00:40:18.639 --> 00:40:21.239
In the future, I'll wear barbed wire instead of a
736
00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:27.239
nicker elastic. I am nick. Yeah, I feel very seen
737
00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:31.000
pining over some girl who won't give me any fucking attention,
738
00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:34.320
and then just winding up as the cuck brother to
739
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:39.320
all of these beautiful, cool, interesting girls, and they're like, oh, Robbie,
740
00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:43.480
you're such an old auntie. This is exactly the role
741
00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:44.119
I would be in.
742
00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:46.199
Whatever your husband's so fucking hot.
743
00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:48.360
I know it was. It was, let me tell you,
744
00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:50.800
it was a fucking lot of work to trick him
745
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:54.079
and marry me. Good. I did good, but it took
746
00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:54.920
all my strength.
747
00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:57.719
He married you for me, all my skills.
748
00:40:57.800 --> 00:41:03.320
Oh listen, package deal, you're an asset. You're actually probably
749
00:41:04.559 --> 00:41:07.960
way up there in assets. Yeah, I'm just trying to think,
750
00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:10.840
like maybe me being kind of funny would be the
751
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:12.599
first one. And then like right after that, it's like,
752
00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:16.880
why you get Amanda two? Yep, yeah, you hear that. Boys,
753
00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:21.840
you take me, you get Amanda two? Okay, So every
754
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:24.679
two days a fucking fuck ton of long stem roses
755
00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:30.039
comes for Pagan. Uh oh okay, So she's kind of
756
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:33.199
dating the prince a little bit, get girl, and then
757
00:41:33.239 --> 00:41:37.960
she gets a telephone call. Tagan gets a telephone call.
758
00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:41.519
Who a telephone call was always an event in their lives.
759
00:41:41.880 --> 00:41:44.960
My cousin Casper called me, so she's coming back into
760
00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:46.519
the room after having this telephone call.
761
00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:46.920
Huh.
762
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:50.119
He's our ambassador in the Emirates, and he said that
763
00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:52.800
he's heard that I see a great deal of Prince
764
00:41:52.880 --> 00:42:01.159
of Doulah and that I should be most prudent. Caspar
765
00:42:01.360 --> 00:42:05.519
also said that in saidan, women are regarded as possessions,
766
00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:09.960
and once defiled, they are discarded, in fact, sometimes stoned
767
00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:12.039
to death. Okay, so we're getting.
768
00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:14.239
This like the shroud of racism the.
769
00:42:16.639 --> 00:42:19.719
Arabs. Yeah, I lovely just call them Arabs as because
770
00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:23.679
the whole, the whole, yeah, like subcontinent is like, yeah,
771
00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:24.519
we're not going to.
772
00:42:24.599 --> 00:42:29.679
Actually do the work of yeah, being specific about the
773
00:42:29.800 --> 00:42:34.679
very different cultures and identities across this entire region. But
774
00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:38.599
obviously not. We're in nineteen eighty one.
775
00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:43.320
With characters from the forties, the forties, Yeah, bloody well
776
00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:46.199
keeps still, Kate, So Maxine keeps interjecting. It's very again,
777
00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:49.880
very cinematic. Maxine keeps interjecting in with like Kates sits
778
00:42:49.880 --> 00:42:51.960
still because she's trying to do her toenails. So they're
779
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:55.679
having this whole conversation about how women are treated terribly
780
00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:57.280
in the Middle East. Kates, it's still I gotta paint
781
00:42:57.280 --> 00:42:59.360
your toes like just it's so great the way that
782
00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:03.880
she's like the different characters and conversations, Like she doesn't
783
00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:05.199
just forget about the other girls.
784
00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:08.559
You don't just get monologues, you really get these immersive.
785
00:43:08.320 --> 00:43:11.039
Very immersive scenes. Oh, like a writer, I love how
786
00:43:11.159 --> 00:43:16.079
starve we are. I know, I know, so, so I
787
00:43:16.119 --> 00:43:19.519
asked what had defiled? What defiled Arab women had got
788
00:43:19.559 --> 00:43:22.000
to do with me? She was wearing a tattered Victorian
789
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:24.199
nightgown that was over one hundred years old and a
790
00:43:24.199 --> 00:43:27.079
pair of scarlet Turkish slippers with the toes curled up,
791
00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:30.800
so she's wearing dift. She's like, I don't know what
792
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:33.159
all of these four suffering Arab women have to do
793
00:43:33.199 --> 00:43:39.000
with me. She kicks kick Turkish curled shoes, the other
794
00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:42.039
two sat up, and nail polish dripped on Kate's ankles.
795
00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:45.320
Old Caspar said that Abdi was pushed into power long
796
00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:47.840
before he was old enough, and because his family is
797
00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:51.440
apparently very religious and a bit mad, lives in total seclusion,
798
00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:54.000
so he's essentially living away from his family. Now I
799
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:56.960
think he's actually out of school. He's eighteen, but just
800
00:43:57.000 --> 00:43:59.639
out of school. But he's not going home. Yeah, because
801
00:43:59.679 --> 00:44:02.119
he has this very powerful family and they're apparently all
802
00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:03.920
a little fucking nutty nutty.
803
00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:05.119
Yeah, he doesn't want to go.
804
00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:09.480
He doesn't want to go back. Yeah. And so her,
805
00:44:09.559 --> 00:44:14.599
her cousin, who's the the I don't know, attache to
806
00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:17.119
the fucking Emirates or whatever, is like giving her the
807
00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:22.960
rundown on this guy. And then yeah, and I wrote,
808
00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:25.280
I wrote in my notes for Pagan, it's just a
809
00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:27.719
laugh and a distraction at this point. Even his warnings
810
00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:30.400
about like, oh, it's a very weird, undistable, and she's like,
811
00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:32.719
I don't give a fucking shit yet. Yeah, I got
812
00:44:32.800 --> 00:44:36.480
cool robes and slippers on. I get roses every two weeks.
813
00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:39.039
I'm having a fuck or every two days. Yeah, I'm
814
00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:44.840
having a fucking blast. And then Caspar told me Abdullah
815
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:48.880
is engaged to be married. What Maxine and her white
816
00:44:48.960 --> 00:44:52.559
nightgows stopped climbing into bed. Who oh to some Arab
817
00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:55.239
princess who's only ten years old? Can you believe it?
818
00:44:55.280 --> 00:44:58.480
They're gonna be married when she's fifteen? Oh yis yeah,
819
00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:01.760
yuk yuk yuk, which, by the way, a fucking does not.
820
00:45:03.239 --> 00:45:07.119
Also, like, obviously, I feel there's so many trophy things,
821
00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:12.320
especially among like brown people from white people about child
822
00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:14.639
marriage blah blah blah. Just a friendly reminder that like,
823
00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:16.840
child marriage is very much alive and well here in
824
00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:17.480
the United.
825
00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:18.519
States, every.
826
00:45:19.679 --> 00:45:24.440
Ship white Christian like creep O's are some of the
827
00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:31.039
most egregious advantage. Yeah, in the US.
828
00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:34.079
So this is this is not unique, not at all,
829
00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:39.559
and and is uh it was a practice in all
830
00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:44.000
cultures and all cultures. It's just maintained unfortunately longer in
831
00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:49.920
some others, including American Modern America and Christian societies. Yeah.
832
00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:53.599
So suddenly the lights go out because the the matron has,
833
00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:56.599
like the masters its lights.
834
00:45:56.639 --> 00:45:58.679
What about the toenails have.
835
00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:02.760
To be left unfinished. Sadly they'll be uneven, and that's
836
00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:05.400
why one of them dies. Oh god, she stumbles down
837
00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:10.480
the stairs. All my toes were even. Uh. I loved this,
838
00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:12.800
I loved this passage. Suddenly the lights went out, switched
839
00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:15.559
off as usual from the Headmaster's apartment, and the moonlight
840
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:18.960
streaming through the lace curtains cast a wreath of intercuess
841
00:46:18.960 --> 00:46:22.239
a wreath of intertwined pale gray roses on Maxine's bed
842
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:24.760
as she tossed back the sheets and rushed over to
843
00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:25.480
hug Pagan.
844
00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:28.800
Poor darling, Poor darling, he's a bloody two timer, a
845
00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:32.400
rat a sheet because it's because it's Maxine.
846
00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:36.280
So when she says a ship, yeah, he's a yeah.
847
00:46:36.559 --> 00:46:40.400
Oh he's a rat the sheet. Oh it's true. It
848
00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:44.840
sounds medieval, exclaimed Kate about the un marriage. Well, that's
849
00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:48.280
exactly Caspar's point. Abdey isn't like a rich western teenager
850
00:46:48.320 --> 00:46:50.000
trying to behave like a man in the world. He's
851
00:46:50.039 --> 00:46:54.079
sort of a ruthless, very powerful desert hood. She paused.
852
00:46:54.360 --> 00:46:57.000
I rather think that that's what I find so fascinating.
853
00:46:57.159 --> 00:46:59.960
So she's like, he's like almost like a gangster, yeah,
854
00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:02.679
because she doesn't have any context for like how these
855
00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:05.519
families with all this oil money and all this yeah, operate,
856
00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:06.880
And she's like, he's just kind of like a like
857
00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:12.360
a gangster to me. But he's certainly not to be trusted,
858
00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:16.320
said Maxine. But then, of course no man can be trusted.
859
00:47:17.199 --> 00:47:20.679
Cut out the sophisticated act, Kate said, who can you trust?
860
00:47:21.119 --> 00:47:26.119
We can trust e chezzah, Maxine said firmly, so rather solemnly,
861
00:47:26.320 --> 00:47:29.159
they all sat on Kate's bed in the moonlight and
862
00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:35.119
promised lasting friendship through thick and thin, Pagan said, wildly,
863
00:47:35.159 --> 00:47:38.000
shaking her hands over her head like a bruise but
864
00:47:38.119 --> 00:47:43.480
victorious boxer. Thick and thin, giggled Kate. Especially thin, she said,
865
00:47:43.480 --> 00:47:48.000
prod still well covered ribs again. She's because they don't
866
00:47:48.280 --> 00:47:50.719
know the disordered way in which Maxine has lost all
867
00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:55.039
this weight. They're just like, oh fun, skinny, now seek
868
00:47:55.119 --> 00:47:58.920
and scene, said Maxine, who, like all French French people
869
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:03.880
pronounced tea h's as s's. Well, yes that too, Kate said,
870
00:48:03.920 --> 00:48:08.400
thoughtfully interestingly, she had I love that sick and sin, well,
871
00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:11.440
yes that too. So through thick and thrin, through sick
872
00:48:11.480 --> 00:48:13.400
and sin. That's their motto.
873
00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:14.760
In sickness and in.
874
00:48:14.880 --> 00:48:19.199
Sin sin, it's a bad it's a plane.
875
00:48:19.519 --> 00:48:21.679
It's a quick ad break before we get back to
876
00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:22.079
the show.
877
00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:29.519
Okay, So they're passing notes in class and Kate reads
878
00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:32.840
the note in class surreptitiously to not get caught getting
879
00:48:32.840 --> 00:48:36.880
a ball gown. Whoopee. So Pagan is getting a ball gown.
880
00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:39.320
For an event with Abdi and how she.
881
00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:43.159
Managed to wrangle the ball gown is fucking masterful. So
882
00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:47.079
she talks to her mother about Abdullah. Abdullah is quite agitated,
883
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:49.360
but she's like, I need I'm going to He's probably
884
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:51.320
going to ask me to the Saint Valentine's Day ball
885
00:48:51.440 --> 00:48:54.039
and my mom, you know, I have nothing to fucking wear.
886
00:48:54.559 --> 00:48:56.800
And then the mom is like, mad bry, don't want
887
00:48:56.880 --> 00:48:59.519
you to. And then she cuts her mom off, hangs
888
00:48:59.559 --> 00:49:03.800
up on her, and calls her grandfather and is like.
889
00:49:04.039 --> 00:49:08.360
Grandpa, puppy, I needed prop the ball gown and gown.
890
00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:10.599
And then she and how she gets him to agree
891
00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:15.679
to it is that she indicates, kind of insinuates that
892
00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:19.000
if he doesn't get her one, Prince Abdullah might get
893
00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:21.159
her one. She'd have no choice but to.
894
00:49:21.159 --> 00:49:24.440
Accept this, yes, this physic extravagant gift.
895
00:49:24.400 --> 00:49:27.440
From this prince of the Middle East. And he's like,
896
00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:33.039
so she he agrees to buy her a ball gown
897
00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:37.199
on the condition that she accepts no fucking gifts from Abdullah.
898
00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:41.239
She's like, okay, which was the gift which was a
899
00:49:41.360 --> 00:49:45.880
huge mistake because oh my god, he tries to give
900
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:48.039
her some amazing fucking gifts coming up.
901
00:49:48.079 --> 00:49:48.880
But she won't take them.
902
00:49:48.920 --> 00:49:53.280
She keeps take them. She keeps her word. It's amazing. No,
903
00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:54.599
I would just lie.
904
00:49:55.119 --> 00:49:56.199
I didn't take anything from.
905
00:49:56.039 --> 00:49:58.719
Her, So she uh spends more time with him. She
906
00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:02.280
drops it about his like ten year old fiance. I
907
00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:05.400
asked whether he had a ten year old fiance. He wrote,
908
00:50:05.679 --> 00:50:08.239
rather displease and pointed his chit at me and said
909
00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:10.480
he did, but that it was entirely a matter of
910
00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:13.639
diplomacy and nothing to do with UH. And then he
911
00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:16.880
gets mad and just sits there and like like thinks
912
00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:20.519
about it for a while, and then she I love this.
913
00:50:20.920 --> 00:50:22.920
I love the scene where he's just like, I don't
914
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:25.760
know what to do. And then their their interaction is
915
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:28.840
really weird. And then he leaves and then like a
916
00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:31.800
bodyguard comes in with a big red box and he
917
00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:35.039
has a huge diamond necklace in God, so that's how
918
00:50:35.079 --> 00:50:38.199
he dealt with her finding out give her this gorgeous gift.
919
00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:41.440
I don't know what to do. I'll give her diamonds. Yeah,
920
00:50:42.119 --> 00:50:43.480
he doesn't know what to do, so.
921
00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:46.119
He never keep my word to my grandfather. I it's
922
00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:47.480
the first.
923
00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:51.880
Box that's I rib as an utterly divine diamond necklace.
924
00:50:52.199 --> 00:50:55.199
But she promised her grandfather. So she shoots it down, wow,
925
00:50:55.320 --> 00:50:57.039
and then she has to shoot down like four or
926
00:50:57.079 --> 00:51:01.320
five more of them on following occasion. On following four occasions,
927
00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:04.159
when Pagan turned up at tea time for Prince Abdullah,
928
00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:07.199
a big crimson velvet box comes out and including a
929
00:51:08.159 --> 00:51:12.000
emerald earrings, a tiara of golden birch leaves, the bracelet
930
00:51:12.079 --> 00:51:16.400
of aquamarine, or an enormous uncut sapphire ring. What The
931
00:51:16.440 --> 00:51:20.840
only thing Pagan accepted with with her mother's permission was
932
00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:26.280
Abdullah's grandfather's riding cloak, so like a family heirloom that
933
00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:28.599
he wants to give her, And she's like, I guess
934
00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:30.360
it's kind of ratty, but I guess I'm allowed to
935
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:31.840
take it because I told my mom about it. And
936
00:51:31.960 --> 00:51:34.679
it's a it's like it's like pinning. It's like giving
937
00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:36.559
you his letter jacket or something. Is kind of what
938
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:38.840
she seems to think it is, but you find out
939
00:51:38.880 --> 00:51:42.760
later that it's by far the most expensive thing that
940
00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:44.880
he has tried to give her because it is made
941
00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:48.320
out of like Persian, like like lamb, it's like cashmer
942
00:51:48.840 --> 00:51:51.760
it's like or it's some rare Persian.
943
00:51:53.159 --> 00:51:53.360
Yeah.
944
00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:56.199
So she doesn't know, so she's like, Okay, I guess
945
00:51:56.199 --> 00:52:03.360
I took that. That thing's worthless, like and it's probably
946
00:52:03.400 --> 00:52:08.599
a historical artifact. Yeah soses, Yeah, so I like horses
947
00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:12.400
like us. It's a car, so isn't it fucking great?
948
00:52:13.159 --> 00:52:13.960
I love those?
949
00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:17.760
Yeah, this is so fun. I love that I got
950
00:52:18.079 --> 00:52:20.320
for once, not like graphic discussion.
951
00:52:20.400 --> 00:52:22.679
Yeah, I feel like the way that the chapters are
952
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:24.440
landing is in our favor thus far.
953
00:52:24.559 --> 00:52:27.760
Yes, thus far. Pagan had coaxed Maxine and lending her
954
00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:31.639
her pale blue taffeta Christian Dio dress. So for a little,
955
00:52:31.719 --> 00:52:34.079
a small dance. It's not the big Valentine's Day dance,
956
00:52:34.119 --> 00:52:36.360
but it is like a small, a small dance coming up,
957
00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:38.159
which is so funny because they describe all the girls
958
00:52:38.199 --> 00:52:42.119
clomping it in their boots becauseide and then they have
959
00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:44.559
little their dancing shoes and bags. So they're in these
960
00:52:44.559 --> 00:52:47.599
beautiful dresses with big clompy boots. It's just very cute.
961
00:52:47.639 --> 00:52:49.639
We used to have to do that sometimes for Sweethearts
962
00:52:49.719 --> 00:52:53.079
dances and stuff. We'd be walking through feet of snow.
963
00:52:53.239 --> 00:52:59.039
Yeah. My sister went the Halloween blizzard as aerial, so
964
00:52:59.159 --> 00:53:03.000
she had the colored shirt. And the she sell bra
965
00:53:03.599 --> 00:53:05.599
and her tail and just big boots and a big
966
00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:08.199
puff coat and she was wading through the snow. She
967
00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:10.199
like wouldn't take it off because she liked it so much,
968
00:53:10.239 --> 00:53:12.480
even though she had to wade through snow. It's fucking
969
00:53:12.559 --> 00:53:16.360
so cute, so cute. So Pagan convinces Maxine to give
970
00:53:16.400 --> 00:53:18.719
her her pale blue dress, but she has to wear
971
00:53:18.719 --> 00:53:21.119
this bolero around her shoulders because she can't zip it
972
00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:24.599
up all the way. Oh yeah, because she's yeah, because
973
00:53:24.679 --> 00:53:27.440
she's much larger than Maxica. But then there goes she's
974
00:53:27.519 --> 00:53:29.519
also have to wear this bolero the whole night. Big
975
00:53:29.559 --> 00:53:36.280
deal music from a band playing blah blah blah Dulah's bodyguards. Ah,
976
00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:39.960
so this is this is great. Uh. As she's at
977
00:53:39.960 --> 00:53:42.400
the dance, she's dancing with another boy and then one
978
00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:45.000
of the bodyguards comes up and is like, my master,
979
00:53:45.119 --> 00:53:47.119
the crown Princes Abdullah, which just two dance with you,
980
00:53:48.360 --> 00:53:50.960
and then the guy is like. The Danish student is like, well,
981
00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:53.000
he'll have to wait, and then the bodyguard knocks him
982
00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:56.519
the fuck over. No, the Danish student was sprawled on
983
00:53:56.519 --> 00:53:59.800
the floor and it's like, no, knocks him over and
984
00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:02.679
then takes her over there, just being described as a
985
00:54:03.239 --> 00:54:05.920
iron hand in the small of her back. Still smiling,
986
00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:08.199
she said, may it please your Royal Highness to tell
987
00:54:08.239 --> 00:54:10.199
your thugs never to touch me again?
988
00:54:10.360 --> 00:54:12.320
Yeah? I good for her.
989
00:54:12.400 --> 00:54:14.519
I love her so much.
990
00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:16.320
Huh.
991
00:54:16.360 --> 00:54:19.280
And remember I'm not one of your subjects. You don't
992
00:54:19.360 --> 00:54:23.360
own me, and I shall dance with whom I please. Yes, yes,
993
00:54:23.679 --> 00:54:26.480
Suddenly she dropped her hoteur and then like leans in
994
00:54:26.519 --> 00:54:28.280
and is like, abde, why don't you have to humiliate
995
00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:31.639
hans A draw all this attention to me? And it
996
00:54:31.719 --> 00:54:34.639
is a pause, and he apologizes, most regrettable, my servant
997
00:54:34.760 --> 00:54:38.880
is over zealous. Oh stop talking like an Indian raj
998
00:54:38.960 --> 00:54:40.920
phrase book. Of course I want to be with you,
999
00:54:41.239 --> 00:54:43.840
but you really can't push people around as it suits
1000
00:54:43.880 --> 00:54:46.920
you and expect them to like you. I hate it
1001
00:54:46.920 --> 00:54:50.119
when you act suddenly imperious. This is just an ordinary dance,
1002
00:54:50.159 --> 00:54:52.159
and if you didn't want to be treated like in
1003
00:54:52.199 --> 00:54:56.119
an ordinary manner, you shouldn't have come. Yeah, wickedly, she added,
1004
00:54:56.320 --> 00:54:58.719
I hope you aren't going to be as bossy with
1005
00:54:58.800 --> 00:55:04.280
your ten year old va, and then Abdullah's mouth tightens,
1006
00:55:04.280 --> 00:55:05.960
he blazes with anger. I love that she's kind of
1007
00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:09.480
laying out. Listen. I like spending time with you, and
1008
00:55:09.519 --> 00:55:12.000
I like being with you, but you cannot fucking act
1009
00:55:12.079 --> 00:55:15.400
all ownzy ponesy about me when you've got a fiance.
1010
00:55:16.000 --> 00:55:19.119
I love it. It's great. Abdullah's mouth tightened and he'd
1011
00:55:19.159 --> 00:55:23.880
just give her jewels and obtained jewels. I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
1012
00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:28.199
here are jewels. Abdullah's mouth tightened and his eyes blazed
1013
00:55:28.199 --> 00:55:30.440
with anger. For a moment, Pagan thought he might hit her,
1014
00:55:30.599 --> 00:55:32.519
but instead he put his arms around her and they
1015
00:55:32.599 --> 00:55:35.639
danced off in silence. Unseen by Abdullah, Pagan blew a
1016
00:55:35.719 --> 00:55:39.760
kiss over her shoulder to ham Oh God at her.
1017
00:55:41.440 --> 00:55:41.920
I love it.
1018
00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:47.360
She is living her fucking life. Suddenly, Pagan found that
1019
00:55:47.360 --> 00:55:49.400
she was trembling, and she leaned against And this is
1020
00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:51.639
the part I didn't want to read because it's all horny, okay,
1021
00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:54.719
But I have to read it because it's important. Leaned
1022
00:55:54.760 --> 00:55:58.239
against Abdullah's muscular body, closer to him, Suddenly, more physically
1023
00:55:58.280 --> 00:56:00.800
aware of him in the crowd out of dancers than
1024
00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:03.519
she had ever been alone with him in the suite. Tonight,
1025
00:56:03.639 --> 00:56:07.400
Pagan felt different, reckless as she felt his warm breath
1026
00:56:07.480 --> 00:56:09.840
on the side of her neck, then the tip of
1027
00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:13.000
his tongue against it. Erotic and inviting, he gives her
1028
00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:17.119
a little little kiss. For the rest of the evening,
1029
00:56:17.159 --> 00:56:20.119
Pagan moved around the dance floor in an erotic drance.
1030
00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:23.559
As the midnight curfew approached, Abdullah look straight into her
1031
00:56:23.559 --> 00:56:26.719
eyes and murmured, persuasively, come back with me and let
1032
00:56:26.760 --> 00:56:30.760
me show you what love is. Whoa make you feel
1033
00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:37.360
as you've never felt before, And Pagan goes, aha, how
1034
00:56:37.360 --> 00:56:40.199
can you be so sure, because when I was sixteen,
1035
00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:43.119
I spent three weeks in Cairo with the Hakim car
1036
00:56:43.159 --> 00:56:46.119
al Sad, who taught me how to make love. To
1037
00:56:46.280 --> 00:56:49.519
think only of your pleasure. You had lessons in love
1038
00:56:49.559 --> 00:56:54.559
for three weeks. You studied it like geography. Pagan was astounded, impressed,
1039
00:56:54.559 --> 00:56:58.320
and intrigued. She longed to ask what he had learned
1040
00:56:58.360 --> 00:57:01.039
and how it was taught there real life women or
1041
00:57:01.079 --> 00:57:03.760
a blackboard in chalk, and was their homework and what
1042
00:57:03.800 --> 00:57:08.880
difference had it made girl girl? Instead, she simply blurted
1043
00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:14.440
out how he nibbled at her ear lobe. Come back
1044
00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:18.639
to the Imperial and let me show you brawl, and
1045
00:57:18.679 --> 00:57:20.960
she goes okay and goes out and goes to the
1046
00:57:20.960 --> 00:57:23.079
door with him before she kept like comes to her
1047
00:57:23.119 --> 00:57:25.639
senses and it's like no fucking wait, wait, wait, wait,
1048
00:57:25.679 --> 00:57:29.039
wait wait. Let that she gets as far as the door,
1049
00:57:29.599 --> 00:57:32.199
she's like in a trance and she's like, yup, let's go.
1050
00:57:32.519 --> 00:57:35.519
But then the cold air, yes, yes, that's the way
1051
00:57:35.639 --> 00:57:38.599
I can't do. That's actually that's great, that would be amazing.
1052
00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:40.559
And then she but then she also thinks about like
1053
00:57:41.679 --> 00:57:44.639
her mother, the fiance, the paparazzi, like the cold air
1054
00:57:44.679 --> 00:57:47.559
from the door like snaps her two and she's like,
1055
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:50.360
I can't. I simply can't. Opdi. Look, Mademoiselle is waving
1056
00:57:50.440 --> 00:57:54.199
us all to the cloakroom because there time to leave.
1057
00:57:54.639 --> 00:57:57.440
Aching with desire, Abdullah pulled her to him as Pagan
1058
00:57:57.480 --> 00:57:59.679
tried to break away. What do you expect a man
1059
00:57:59.719 --> 00:58:01.880
to do? He growled, You aroused me, and then you
1060
00:58:01.960 --> 00:58:04.079
vanished into the night. In my country, we have a
1061
00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:06.719
word for such a woman. Oh, in my country too.
1062
00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:10.760
Then Pagan couldn't resist adding, but after all, you are engaged.
1063
00:58:13.280 --> 00:58:17.199
Abdullah's black eyes blazed again, and an impatient Mademoiselle waved
1064
00:58:17.199 --> 00:58:19.880
a beckoning finger at Pagan. Prince or no prince, she
1065
00:58:20.039 --> 00:58:23.159
wanted to prince or no prince, She wanted to get
1066
00:58:23.199 --> 00:58:26.239
to her bed once more. Abdullah pulled Pagan tight against
1067
00:58:26.239 --> 00:58:30.239
his body and she felt his throbbing arousal. Then Abdullah
1068
00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:32.199
turned on his heels and stucked angrily.
1069
00:58:32.880 --> 00:58:34.519
Mark just boner away from her.
1070
00:58:34.760 --> 00:58:38.599
Yeah, just took his big boner and walked it away.
1071
00:58:39.159 --> 00:58:39.920
Wow.
1072
00:58:40.440 --> 00:58:43.000
On the evening before the Saint Valentine's dance.
1073
00:58:43.079 --> 00:58:44.760
So this is the big big dance.
1074
00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:47.360
It's like it's like in Puppets, there were like so
1075
00:58:47.400 --> 00:58:48.039
many parties.
1076
00:58:48.360 --> 00:58:50.559
There's six balls.
1077
00:58:50.400 --> 00:58:53.679
It's important. Okay, this is the important one, is the
1078
00:58:53.719 --> 00:58:58.880
big one. Guys, ladies, gentlemen, ladies, ladies and gentle ladies
1079
00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:01.519
and gentle them. Get ready because here we go. It's
1080
00:59:01.519 --> 00:59:05.239
the big one. On the evening before the Saint Valentine's dance,
1081
00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:08.159
Kate burst into the bedroom. Pagan, you slut, You didn't
1082
00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:12.519
clean the bath after you full your pubs. There's a
1083
00:59:12.599 --> 00:59:15.679
grubby ring around it. But surely a math is for
1084
00:59:15.719 --> 00:59:19.239
cleaning oneself, said Pagan, puzzled. One does not clean it,
1085
00:59:19.840 --> 00:59:22.840
one hasn't up to date, but one damn well will
1086
00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:24.119
in the future, said Kate.
1087
00:59:24.199 --> 00:59:26.280
You have roommates now, you don't have servants in your
1088
00:59:26.280 --> 00:59:27.000
own little house.
1089
00:59:27.119 --> 00:59:30.639
You really are the slaught of the school. Oh rage
1090
00:59:30.719 --> 00:59:35.000
on the square. Pagan yelled her new curse words and
1091
00:59:35.159 --> 00:59:38.320
threw a tattered exercise book at Kate. I'm sick to
1092
00:59:38.360 --> 00:59:39.800
the winners of the both of you.
1093
00:59:41.519 --> 00:59:45.119
Kate's always criticizing a Magcine doesn't keep her promises. I
1094
00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:49.320
do keep my promises, you, Beach, you promised to lend
1095
00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:50.800
me ten francs.
1096
00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:52.400
Mailed, I mean sheet.
1097
00:59:53.000 --> 00:59:56.480
Why don't you ask your little rich prince for ten francs.
1098
00:59:56.760 --> 00:59:59.880
He can afford it better than an I, only because
1099
00:59:59.880 --> 01:00:01.760
you spend all your money on diet food and get
1100
01:00:01.800 --> 01:00:02.480
skinny for your.
1101
01:00:02.360 --> 01:00:05.480
Stupid sche bum who likes skiing more than he likes you.
1102
01:00:06.519 --> 01:00:09.039
Pagan pounced on Maxine and pummeled her.
1103
01:00:09.199 --> 01:00:11.440
Oh they're literally fighting.
1104
01:00:11.800 --> 01:00:16.840
They are playing. They are being playful. Ow mail the sheet,
1105
01:00:17.039 --> 01:00:22.239
fac damn it blo de dep beach okay okay uh
1106
01:00:22.760 --> 01:00:29.800
al mared sheet f e r k ferk damn it
1107
01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:38.960
blue dep Beach. Stop that sexy scuffling, Kate cried. You
1108
01:00:39.079 --> 01:00:41.480
know Major always suspects that the whole school is a
1109
01:00:41.519 --> 01:00:43.039
seething mass of lesbians.
1110
01:00:43.199 --> 01:00:45.800
Oh my gosh, they're gonna girl fucking each other.
1111
01:00:46.119 --> 01:00:49.440
Please don't quarrel. I can't bear it. Pagan didn't mean
1112
01:00:49.480 --> 01:00:52.039
what she said about Pierre. Of course he really loves you.
1113
01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:56.159
Of course he does. I know that because of eat,
1114
01:00:56.679 --> 01:01:00.480
Maxine said, with dignity, especially because of the after else
1115
01:01:00.880 --> 01:01:03.800
they go didn't glow like fireworks dying in the sky.
1116
01:01:05.079 --> 01:01:07.920
There was a pause, and then Kate said timidly, afterward
1117
01:01:08.039 --> 01:01:10.239
is the awful part for me? I feel so jittery
1118
01:01:10.280 --> 01:01:13.840
and weepy and sort of apart from Francois. Mon you,
1119
01:01:14.079 --> 01:01:17.320
I feel so much closer to Pierre. Maybe you haven't
1120
01:01:17.320 --> 01:01:20.039
done it enough. I didn't like it the first time
1121
01:01:20.079 --> 01:01:22.440
with Pierre, but I didn't want to upset him, so
1122
01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:24.719
I said nothing. I wanted him to stay with me.
1123
01:01:24.880 --> 01:01:27.400
That's all I felt at first. That's the only thing
1124
01:01:27.400 --> 01:01:30.840
I feel with Francois. Kate worried. I've been doing it
1125
01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:32.880
longer than you have, Maxine. But the last thing I
1126
01:01:32.920 --> 01:01:35.599
feel is deep peace. When I really feel sexy and
1127
01:01:35.679 --> 01:01:39.039
utterly marvelous and glowing is before we start. The afterword
1128
01:01:39.119 --> 01:01:43.440
is just let down. I mean, you cling to someone
1129
01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:45.159
for hours and hours on the dance floor, and you
1130
01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:47.960
can feel his body against yours. You can smell it
1131
01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:50.400
in the rock to the music, wrapped around each other,
1132
01:01:50.440 --> 01:01:52.679
and every time he moved you almost swoon, and you
1133
01:01:52.760 --> 01:01:55.519
finally go the whole way because you know that it
1134
01:01:55.519 --> 01:01:57.880
will be even better. And then he puts his thing
1135
01:01:57.920 --> 01:01:59.800
in you and suddenly everything goes flat.
1136
01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:00.480
Mm hmm.
1137
01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:03.480
He's in seventh heaven and going wild. And I'm suddenly
1138
01:02:03.519 --> 01:02:05.480
looking down at the scene from the ceiling and that
1139
01:02:05.559 --> 01:02:09.480
marvelous melting knees feeling is gone. I want to hit
1140
01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:10.400
him and cry.
1141
01:02:10.519 --> 01:02:12.440
Yeah, because as soon as he gets what he wants,
1142
01:02:12.719 --> 01:02:16.000
you're you. He doesn't have any like he doesn't pay
1143
01:02:16.039 --> 01:02:18.039
attention to you. He just gives his own needs.
1144
01:02:18.360 --> 01:02:21.719
Fuck about you or your pleasure. He's not doing this.
1145
01:02:21.639 --> 01:02:22.320
Is what he's doing.
1146
01:02:22.320 --> 01:02:24.360
It to connect with you because he loves you.
1147
01:02:27.039 --> 01:02:27.920
Oh, I can't wait.
1148
01:02:27.960 --> 01:02:31.360
He is to do sex with someone who likes you.
1149
01:02:31.440 --> 01:02:34.239
Oh that would be preferable.
1150
01:02:34.480 --> 01:02:40.360
Likes you at least a little bits. That's my wisdom.
1151
01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:43.639
You never thought of that, did you? I did it.
1152
01:02:44.800 --> 01:02:48.280
Maybe you should relax more, Kate. Maybe you worry too
1153
01:02:48.320 --> 01:02:50.679
much about what you should be doing instead of how
1154
01:02:50.760 --> 01:02:55.000
you feel. I always feel wonderful and afterwards you're low.
1155
01:02:55.159 --> 01:02:58.400
It must be because you're French, Kate said gloomily. I
1156
01:02:58.480 --> 01:03:00.880
like to imagine Kate when she gets oppressed as just
1157
01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:04.760
this dumpy, like like like me in address, Like, just
1158
01:03:05.079 --> 01:03:09.159
don't be called your French. Don't be silly, said Pagan.
1159
01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:12.599
Maybe Francois hasn't had enough practice, Maybe he's never been
1160
01:03:12.599 --> 01:03:16.000
told what to do. When Abdullah was sixteen, he went
1161
01:03:16.039 --> 01:03:20.519
to a special doctor to learn about love for weeks.
1162
01:03:20.599 --> 01:03:24.440
Imagine I didn't like to ask him if it was
1163
01:03:24.719 --> 01:03:32.199
tests or exams, and oh, that's right. Everyone stares at
1164
01:03:32.239 --> 01:03:35.719
her in silence like and she's like, you're wrong. We
1165
01:03:35.840 --> 01:03:37.679
never have. And I'm not going to say another word
1166
01:03:37.679 --> 01:03:39.800
because pes o Meagan is like, we're not sleeping together.
1167
01:03:40.559 --> 01:03:42.760
We just just came up in regular conversation.
1168
01:03:42.840 --> 01:03:44.039
Yeah, it's totally normal.
1169
01:03:44.920 --> 01:03:47.480
How do we know that story as an upmarket brand
1170
01:03:47.559 --> 01:03:50.440
of old Arabic bullshit? If you won't talk about the
1171
01:03:50.480 --> 01:03:55.400
consumer test, demanded Kate. We're coming out with our sexual
1172
01:03:55.440 --> 01:03:58.920
experiences in the interest of further education, and if you
1173
01:03:58.960 --> 01:04:02.079
won't join us, then you can listen. This is serious
1174
01:04:02.079 --> 01:04:06.440
for me. Maybe I'm serious, you're serious. Maybe I have
1175
01:04:06.559 --> 01:04:10.840
a fleek. Maybe I'm worried. So she's like, I can't
1176
01:04:11.039 --> 01:04:14.880
enjoy sex with him, maybe there's something wrong with me. Yeah,
1177
01:04:14.920 --> 01:04:17.039
well there isn't no.
1178
01:04:18.599 --> 01:04:18.840
Case.
1179
01:04:18.960 --> 01:04:20.960
And you know what though, you know what, though there
1180
01:04:21.039 --> 01:04:22.880
is a little bit of something wrong with her. It's
1181
01:04:22.920 --> 01:04:30.360
called undealt with trauma. Yeah, sexual assault. Well, if you're
1182
01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:32.559
a freak, then I am too, because I felt the
1183
01:04:32.599 --> 01:04:36.039
same way as you did, Pagan says. But it wasn't
1184
01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:39.400
with Obdy. It was with Paul. And if you dare
1185
01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:44.159
tell anyone, I'll kill you. Oh my god, So you did, yes,
1186
01:04:44.199 --> 01:04:47.519
said Pagan gloomily. And it was beastly. I think sex
1187
01:04:47.599 --> 01:04:52.000
is overrated. So Pagan seems to think that what happened,
1188
01:04:52.039 --> 01:04:56.840
that what happened was sex. Yeah, sadly, so I suspect
1189
01:04:56.880 --> 01:05:00.639
it's addictive, offered Maxine. Like istas, there was a bang
1190
01:05:00.679 --> 01:05:05.400
on the door. I don't like them either. Andre the
1191
01:05:05.519 --> 01:05:08.559
ancient porter carried in a huge box dress to Pagan.
1192
01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:11.039
The other two girls peeled over her, peered over her
1193
01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:13.880
shoulder as she opened it her dress. There was a
1194
01:05:14.280 --> 01:05:18.239
There was no tissue paper. The box was full of soft,
1195
01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:22.360
dark Persian lamb. There was an odd silence As Pagan
1196
01:05:22.400 --> 01:05:25.000
lifted it out and draped it around her shoulders and
1197
01:05:25.079 --> 01:05:28.280
pulled the hood over her tangled mahogany hair, the wonderful
1198
01:05:28.320 --> 01:05:32.039
cloak reached to the floor. Oh Christ, I mean, mon Dieu,
1199
01:05:32.599 --> 01:05:36.079
said Pagan. This isn't what Mama expected. I'll have to
1200
01:05:36.239 --> 01:05:37.880
check with her or she'll give me hell.
1201
01:05:38.119 --> 01:05:41.199
Oh, it's the clothes. But it's much more beautiful than
1202
01:05:41.239 --> 01:05:43.239
she and I wonder if he downplayed it.
1203
01:05:43.719 --> 01:05:48.679
He said, my father's my grandfather's riding cloak.
1204
01:05:49.039 --> 01:05:49.480
That's it.
1205
01:05:50.119 --> 01:05:53.719
Yes, So she expecting him to know that a royal
1206
01:05:54.000 --> 01:06:00.280
riding clothes probably it's like an important garment. She thinks
1207
01:06:00.320 --> 01:06:02.239
that it's like they're riding cloak, which is more of
1208
01:06:02.239 --> 01:06:04.559
a service garment. But this is a it's like what
1209
01:06:04.679 --> 01:06:07.440
the the Queen of England wears when she was on
1210
01:06:07.480 --> 01:06:10.880
a horse. It's like that big cloak that's a status symbol.
1211
01:06:11.239 --> 01:06:13.480
And this like like I like we talked about earlier,
1212
01:06:13.679 --> 01:06:20.679
this blows away in price anything that he fucking yeah,
1213
01:06:20.760 --> 01:06:24.880
So she has now a Persian king's cloak.
1214
01:06:24.639 --> 01:06:26.800
And it's fucking gorgeous.
1215
01:06:27.280 --> 01:06:30.360
All of them try it on immediately. Pagan went to
1216
01:06:30.440 --> 01:06:32.280
the telephone to call her mother, she came back half
1217
01:06:32.320 --> 01:06:35.960
an hour looking vexed. She says that as she agreed
1218
01:06:36.079 --> 01:06:38.000
I could have it, I can keep it, but as
1219
01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:41.159
the cloak is valuable, I can't wear it. I can
1220
01:06:41.239 --> 01:06:43.639
wear it to Saint Dontine's Day ball because to do
1221
01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:46.039
so otherwise would be discourteous, but after that I'm not
1222
01:06:46.039 --> 01:06:48.760
to be seen in it. Well, at least it will
1223
01:06:48.800 --> 01:06:51.079
be warmer to wear at night than that rotten old
1224
01:06:51.079 --> 01:06:55.519
beld quilt. So Pagan now has her sight. Her like
1225
01:06:55.800 --> 01:06:59.320
nightclothes are like it was like a half a million
1226
01:06:59.440 --> 01:07:01.440
dollar like our price, all the gifts.
1227
01:07:01.199 --> 01:07:03.239
That she's not allowed to wear outside of her room.
1228
01:07:03.639 --> 01:07:05.480
So for the rest of her time at school, after
1229
01:07:05.559 --> 01:07:07.719
lights out, Pagan sat cross legged on the end of
1230
01:07:07.800 --> 01:07:11.320
Kate's bed, wrapped from head to toe in priceless Persian.
1231
01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:11.760
Wow.
1232
01:07:12.280 --> 01:07:15.000
Wow, unbelievable.
1233
01:07:15.280 --> 01:07:20.599
All right, So then, oh god, there's more. There's more.
1234
01:07:20.840 --> 01:07:22.840
That's the end of chapter five. Chapter five is quite long.
1235
01:07:22.920 --> 01:07:26.559
Chapter six is quite short. Okay, So now we are
1236
01:07:27.599 --> 01:07:31.280
at the dance and the girls are all there and
1237
01:07:31.480 --> 01:07:35.679
she hasn't Kate hasn't seen Francois in fucking weeks, and
1238
01:07:35.719 --> 01:07:38.840
he's like, oh my god, where's my fucking date? You know?
1239
01:07:39.079 --> 01:07:43.039
And Maxine sees Pierre immediately it's like runs after it.
1240
01:07:43.440 --> 01:07:45.880
And so the girls are all at the dance, and
1241
01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:49.639
Judy is in she's working the event, so she is
1242
01:07:49.679 --> 01:07:53.480
in a traditional Swiss costume with a white blouse, tightly
1243
01:07:53.559 --> 01:07:59.719
laced black corsel it and voluminous scarlet skirt a yeardle.
1244
01:08:00.199 --> 01:08:04.639
She's in like fucking like traditional October festal and shit,
1245
01:08:05.159 --> 01:08:07.639
it comes over and is like slipping down into like
1246
01:08:07.679 --> 01:08:09.559
quickly down to the table to just have little micro
1247
01:08:09.719 --> 01:08:11.639
chats with them, and it's like, oh, they glad to
1248
01:08:11.639 --> 01:08:14.280
stop wearing this cuckoo clock outfit. I can't stay long
1249
01:08:14.320 --> 01:08:16.760
because I'm helping behind the bar. What's up, Kate? When
1250
01:08:16.800 --> 01:08:19.359
Kate explained, Judy said, you've got two legs and a
1251
01:08:19.399 --> 01:08:20.960
tongue in your head. Don't just sit there. Go over
1252
01:08:21.000 --> 01:08:24.760
to him and say hello, because she has spotted Francois.
1253
01:08:25.319 --> 01:08:30.319
But Francois is seated between two plump, dark girls with
1254
01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:33.640
identically heavy, heavy lidded somnolent eyes.
1255
01:08:33.800 --> 01:08:34.960
So he's with two other chicks.
1256
01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:39.439
He is in between two Greek heiresses. Oh dang, And
1257
01:08:39.479 --> 01:08:43.359
it turns out perhaps he hasn't been so busy with skiing.
1258
01:08:44.319 --> 01:08:49.159
He's been canoodlean with heiresses behind his back, her back.
1259
01:08:51.920 --> 01:08:54.119
So Kate is like, you know what, I'm gonna go
1260
01:08:54.159 --> 01:08:55.680
up to him. I'm gonna be an adult and I'm
1261
01:08:55.680 --> 01:08:58.279
going to I'm gonna talk to him. I'm gonna talk
1262
01:08:58.319 --> 01:09:00.159
to him. I'm gonna see what the fuck is going on,
1263
01:09:01.119 --> 01:09:04.319
Kate said, goes over to him and says, I'm sitting
1264
01:09:04.319 --> 01:09:07.840
in the far corner. Francois, so I noticed. I look
1265
01:09:07.920 --> 01:09:11.920
forward to dancing with you later. Perhaps bewildered, Kate recognized
1266
01:09:11.960 --> 01:09:14.640
his note of dismissal and clumsily bumped her way back
1267
01:09:14.640 --> 01:09:16.600
to the tables to have a seat later.
1268
01:09:16.840 --> 01:09:18.000
That motherfucker.
1269
01:09:18.159 --> 01:09:21.359
Perhaps this was the Valentine's tame bo.
1270
01:09:22.000 --> 01:09:23.880
Yeah, bitch, you supposed to my boyfriend.
1271
01:09:24.039 --> 01:09:27.199
What's wrong, Maxine ass And then they rush off to
1272
01:09:27.239 --> 01:09:31.760
the coatroom, and they do this five times. Meet the coatroom,
1273
01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:33.479
they look at each other and then look at the coatroom,
1274
01:09:33.479 --> 01:09:34.800
and they all run to the courtroom, and then they
1275
01:09:34.800 --> 01:09:36.520
have this little chat in the coatroom, and then they
1276
01:09:36.600 --> 01:09:37.840
go back out, and then they look at each other
1277
01:09:37.840 --> 01:09:39.600
and they go and they go to the coat room.
1278
01:09:39.760 --> 01:09:43.399
It's fucking amazing. Once in the coatroom, Kate burst into tears,
1279
01:09:44.039 --> 01:09:46.319
and then Maxine is like, I think perhaps you exaggerate,
1280
01:09:46.439 --> 01:09:49.399
Maxine said soothingly, perhaps they are old friends of his.
1281
01:09:50.119 --> 01:09:52.359
I'll go over and say hello, you wait here, So
1282
01:09:52.439 --> 01:09:57.159
Maxine goes over to me again. He's introduced to the
1283
01:09:57.159 --> 01:10:00.560
two girls. Poor Kate, thought Maxine, and she hurried back, Yeah,
1284
01:10:01.000 --> 01:10:04.840
you ain't misinterpreting anything. Yeah. Across the dimly room lit room,
1285
01:10:04.880 --> 01:10:07.760
Maxine saw Judy and jerked her head towards the cloak room.
1286
01:10:07.960 --> 01:10:11.680
Judy joined them. A few minutes later. Maxine was saying, kay, Chenry,
1287
01:10:11.800 --> 01:10:14.680
you must stop these tears. There must be some reason
1288
01:10:14.840 --> 01:10:18.319
for his behavior. But even as she spoke, Maxine knew
1289
01:10:18.520 --> 01:10:21.000
there were two reasons, and one was sitting on each
1290
01:10:21.039 --> 01:10:23.880
side of Francois. Look, he's a rat and you're well
1291
01:10:23.960 --> 01:10:26.199
rid of him, said Judy, too inexperienced to know that
1292
01:10:26.239 --> 01:10:30.359
a friend should never denigrate a jilted woman's lover. Oh
1293
01:10:30.439 --> 01:10:33.279
come on, well, I do have to say that, like
1294
01:10:33.720 --> 01:10:38.920
if you just got okay, remember clueless When when the
1295
01:10:38.960 --> 01:10:42.720
girl gets passed over by Elton, the guy they're trying
1296
01:10:42.720 --> 01:10:45.279
to set her up with, Brittany Murphy's character, and they're like,
1297
01:10:45.359 --> 01:10:47.760
you can do way better than him. He sucks, he sucks.
1298
01:10:47.760 --> 01:10:49.920
You can do better than him. If I can do
1299
01:10:50.039 --> 01:10:51.439
better than him, why am I not?
1300
01:10:51.479 --> 01:10:52.479
Why am I not?
1301
01:10:53.680 --> 01:10:57.720
Yeah, because you're not in a very rational place at
1302
01:10:57.760 --> 01:11:00.800
the moment, and it's like he's a piece of shit,
1303
01:11:00.880 --> 01:11:03.039
he's ugly. Well, I can't even get a piece of shit.
1304
01:11:03.119 --> 01:11:11.680
Ugly guy, is what your evil brain does to you.
1305
01:11:09.039 --> 01:11:11.800
Aaron, Our piggy daddy needs his ad.
1306
01:11:11.640 --> 01:11:19.680
Slopint here are ads. But then they're like, okay, but
1307
01:11:19.720 --> 01:11:22.840
you can't fucking cry in the cloak. Sure a ship
1308
01:11:23.000 --> 01:11:23.600
can't be seen.
1309
01:11:23.760 --> 01:11:26.000
Go get back at him by fucking dancing with every dude.
1310
01:11:26.039 --> 01:11:27.760
You were the bell of the ball last time.
1311
01:11:28.600 --> 01:11:33.880
Don't Also they mentioned that herne that her neckline has
1312
01:11:33.920 --> 01:11:39.119
been getting lower. Oh yeah, her neckline, which would have
1313
01:11:39.119 --> 01:11:42.960
gotten lower every dance. So they're like, you gotta get
1314
01:11:42.960 --> 01:11:46.000
your ship together and get out there. You cannot be
1315
01:11:46.159 --> 01:11:51.039
seen to you cannot let him know he hurt you. Look,
1316
01:11:51.079 --> 01:11:53.880
Francois has been having lunch at the chessa all last
1317
01:11:53.880 --> 01:11:57.279
week with those two Greek lumps, said Judy. They're heiresses.
1318
01:11:57.279 --> 01:11:59.680
Who is shipping fortune, and don't think that Francois doesn't
1319
01:11:59.720 --> 01:12:03.119
know it. You can either snivel on or brave it
1320
01:12:03.239 --> 01:12:07.039
up and show that he's not dumped you, you know. Unfortunately,
1321
01:12:07.119 --> 01:12:09.920
this conversation was overheard by another here and Dell Pupil,
1322
01:12:09.960 --> 01:12:12.760
who was in the toilet booths, and they all hate
1323
01:12:12.800 --> 01:12:16.680
on Kate. She gleefully sped out to whisper the news.
1324
01:12:16.920 --> 01:12:21.720
Oh mys DoD had received her come up and said lash.
1325
01:12:21.800 --> 01:12:24.680
When Kate emerged, freshly made up, she instantly recognized that
1326
01:12:24.720 --> 01:12:28.520
her humiliation was commonage. I love that it spreads like
1327
01:12:28.760 --> 01:12:33.319
wildfires through this place. It brought out the Irish in Kate,
1328
01:12:33.359 --> 01:12:36.159
and she beckoned to the waiter, Nick, get me a
1329
01:12:36.239 --> 01:12:38.760
double something. There's a darling girl.
1330
01:12:39.439 --> 01:12:42.640
Girl, take a shot and get your ass.
1331
01:12:42.960 --> 01:12:45.199
So Kate is the Irish in her. The fire and
1332
01:12:45.239 --> 01:12:47.520
her crops up and she's like, now she's just pissed
1333
01:12:47.520 --> 01:12:49.920
at all these fucking people talking behind her back, and
1334
01:12:49.960 --> 01:12:53.079
she's like, fuck it. Nick, who also knew about the
1335
01:12:53.079 --> 01:12:59.199
Greek twins, produced a forbidden double brandy, always.
1336
01:12:58.800 --> 01:13:00.479
Have a friend who's a barn under it?
1337
01:13:01.119 --> 01:13:05.840
Yeah, it comforted Nick to comfort Kate. Why didn't Okay,
1338
01:13:05.960 --> 01:13:08.640
and then he goes on this tangent about his heartbreak
1339
01:13:08.760 --> 01:13:11.600
in his head, where he's like he knew how it felt.
1340
01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:14.600
Why doesn't Judy feel the force of my love? Why
1341
01:13:14.640 --> 01:13:16.760
doesn't the force of my love make Judy love me?
1342
01:13:17.439 --> 01:13:19.840
Why did she constantly refuse to treat him as anything
1343
01:13:19.840 --> 01:13:22.319
but a friend. For both Nick and Kate, part of
1344
01:13:22.359 --> 01:13:24.760
the pain of their love lay and not realizing that
1345
01:13:24.840 --> 01:13:27.640
it was not the only love of their lives, but
1346
01:13:27.760 --> 01:13:30.159
only the first love of their life.
1347
01:13:30.479 --> 01:13:33.000
I all, Nick doesn't become some sort of like in
1348
01:13:33.079 --> 01:13:35.199
Cell because Judy never fucks him.
1349
01:13:35.319 --> 01:13:39.960
Quite the opposite, because Nick says, look, there's a but
1350
01:13:40.199 --> 01:13:44.159
the but oh, he talks to Kate tells, look at
1351
01:13:44.199 --> 01:13:46.399
all these there's a bunch of boys from le Monne
1352
01:13:46.399 --> 01:13:50.079
coming in. Talks about these like the princes. An Indian
1353
01:13:50.199 --> 01:13:54.319
rajah blonde Scandinavian boy who's like, looks like a prince
1354
01:13:54.520 --> 01:13:57.720
blah blah blah blah. So she's like, go get them.
1355
01:13:57.920 --> 01:14:00.880
As as they sauntered over to their table, a sudden mistake,
1356
01:14:01.079 --> 01:14:04.319
unmistakable hush fell. So these boys are coming in and
1357
01:14:04.359 --> 01:14:06.319
then someone else comes in.
1358
01:14:06.560 --> 01:14:07.079
Oh.
1359
01:14:07.359 --> 01:14:10.119
It was the moment of anticipation that always preceded the
1360
01:14:10.279 --> 01:14:13.880
entrance of Royalty. All heads turned towards the door. Why
1361
01:14:13.880 --> 01:14:17.199
Prince Aptula, the guest of honor, stood as stiffly as
1362
01:14:17.279 --> 01:14:21.039
if he were reviewing a parade demure on his arm.
1363
01:14:21.479 --> 01:14:25.119
Pagan floated down the steps in a cloud of sparkling
1364
01:14:25.680 --> 01:14:33.600
missed Gray tweal el that's tool. It's not pronounced tool.
1365
01:14:33.840 --> 01:14:39.199
No tool, disappointing Kate, So Kate. They see Pagan float
1366
01:14:39.279 --> 01:14:42.760
down into the room, and then Kate is like fuck it,
1367
01:14:43.119 --> 01:14:45.920
and she starts flirting with Nick, with whom she feels safe.
1368
01:14:46.079 --> 01:14:48.600
At midnight, pink and white balloons fell in a cloud
1369
01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:51.680
from the ceiling, and all the women guests were presented
1370
01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:54.319
with a single heart shaped powder compact and a single
1371
01:14:54.319 --> 01:14:58.000
long stemmed pink rose. Silver streamers were hurled around the ballroom,
1372
01:14:58.239 --> 01:15:02.520
and all formality was a mad Kate could no longer
1373
01:15:02.760 --> 01:15:07.279
bear the gaiety and headed for the cloakroom, but she
1374
01:15:07.399 --> 01:15:11.520
was way light by Nick. Look we're both unhappy, he whispered.
1375
01:15:11.760 --> 01:15:13.560
Judy won't have anything to do with me except as
1376
01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:15.720
a friend, and she won't even talk to me tonight.
1377
01:15:16.199 --> 01:15:20.199
I'm so lonely and miserable, Kate. I need you come
1378
01:15:20.239 --> 01:15:26.520
to my room, darling, Kate. So he's let's sad, I'm sad,
1379
01:15:26.760 --> 01:15:30.680
you're sad. Let's broken hearts club together, baby, and she's like,
1380
01:15:31.239 --> 01:15:35.640
to her surprise, Kate considered it, I would be really
1381
01:15:35.720 --> 01:15:37.359
nice to have the warmth of a man's arms after
1382
01:15:37.399 --> 01:15:39.479
the pain of projection. Well, I don't know, how do
1383
01:15:39.520 --> 01:15:41.439
we fix it? And then they go over like, all right,
1384
01:15:42.119 --> 01:15:44.199
you come up to my room, come back down, Pagan
1385
01:15:44.239 --> 01:15:45.960
will go home. Peg'll let you in the back door
1386
01:15:46.239 --> 01:15:48.960
five am. So be there at five am or whatever.
1387
01:15:49.000 --> 01:15:51.279
Because Pagan is obviously not going to go home with
1388
01:15:51.359 --> 01:15:56.399
the Prince because that's untour and everyone would know. So
1389
01:15:56.399 --> 01:15:59.199
they're like, all right, fuck it, I'll go And so
1390
01:15:59.319 --> 01:16:02.479
she goes back to discuss the possibilities with Maxine, who
1391
01:16:02.520 --> 01:16:06.199
was slightly tipsy after two glasses of champagne. Pierre wants
1392
01:16:06.199 --> 01:16:09.000
me to stay too, she said, obviously longing to do so.
1393
01:16:09.399 --> 01:16:11.600
Is he going to take you to the team Chalet. No,
1394
01:16:12.159 --> 01:16:16.039
he's booked a room upstairs just in case. Kate was impressed.
1395
01:16:16.079 --> 01:16:19.119
Goodness on the off chance. How expensive? So now the Tuto,
1396
01:16:19.279 --> 01:16:22.000
Maxine and Kate now want to hook up with Pierre
1397
01:16:22.479 --> 01:16:27.119
and Nick, respectively, and they're like, all right, well, sneak
1398
01:16:27.199 --> 01:16:28.960
up and Pagan will go home and let us in.
1399
01:16:30.840 --> 01:16:33.079
I don't think we dared. They signaled across the room
1400
01:16:33.279 --> 01:16:38.199
to Pagan, and then they rushed into the cloak. Stay.
1401
01:16:38.479 --> 01:16:41.159
Pagan exclaimed, how can I possibly stay? Everyone? But no,
1402
01:16:41.720 --> 01:16:43.680
I'll let you in at five, But for Heaven's sake,
1403
01:16:43.800 --> 01:16:44.439
don't be late.
1404
01:16:46.319 --> 01:16:49.039
So Pagan, don't let them do it. They're gonna get caught.
1405
01:16:49.680 --> 01:16:54.199
So at one o'clock, Kate and Maxine climbed onto the bus.
1406
01:16:54.880 --> 01:16:57.640
They were just ahead of Pagan, who created a diversion
1407
01:16:58.199 --> 01:17:01.039
by fussing loudly as she held her heartnell skirts over
1408
01:17:01.079 --> 01:17:04.159
the grimy steps and nearly managed to knock Mademoiselle into
1409
01:17:04.199 --> 01:17:07.520
the gutter as Kate and Maxine slipped out the other door.
1410
01:17:08.199 --> 01:17:14.000
So the bus has two doors, and Maxine is like, man, oh, sorry,
1411
01:17:16.520 --> 01:17:18.359
but the girls have already been seen getting on the buzz.
1412
01:17:19.640 --> 01:17:22.479
Pagan is a fucking fuss. She's stepping all over the
1413
01:17:22.600 --> 01:17:28.800
Mademoiselle and then the girl sneak away, so she gets
1414
01:17:28.800 --> 01:17:31.239
into the room of Nick. Two of them become very
1415
01:17:31.239 --> 01:17:34.239
cozy and comfortable. They do like each other quite a lot,
1416
01:17:34.800 --> 01:17:37.720
and there's a little bit of cuddling first, where he
1417
01:17:38.039 --> 01:17:40.560
hugs her and he holds his head to his chest
1418
01:17:40.760 --> 01:17:45.000
and he pets her hair, and once she relaxes, once
1419
01:17:45.039 --> 01:17:48.840
she feels relaxed, he kisses her on the head and
1420
01:17:48.880 --> 01:17:52.000
then on the cheeks. Okay, he kisses her on the cheek,
1421
01:17:52.279 --> 01:17:54.880
but he won't kiss her on the lips because that's
1422
01:17:54.920 --> 01:17:58.760
his measure of treachery, still private measure of treachery. He's
1423
01:17:58.800 --> 01:18:00.880
like the line I don't want to cross. He'll feel
1424
01:18:00.920 --> 01:18:03.279
kind of naughty, So he doesn't kiss her on the lips.
1425
01:18:03.319 --> 01:18:05.279
And then she's like, fuck you, grab him, kisses him
1426
01:18:05.279 --> 01:18:08.279
on the lips. Kissed her with all the pent up ardor.
1427
01:18:08.319 --> 01:18:09.800
And then he kisses her with all the pent up
1428
01:18:09.880 --> 01:18:13.159
ardor of his eighteen years and the accumulated anxiety and
1429
01:18:13.199 --> 01:18:16.119
pain of the last eight months. That Kate kiss seemed
1430
01:18:16.119 --> 01:18:18.600
to last for half an hour. He couldn't bear to
1431
01:18:18.680 --> 01:18:21.239
leave her mouth. He felt himself drowning in her fragrance
1432
01:18:21.439 --> 01:18:24.520
and the soft feel of her body, warm though through
1433
01:18:24.560 --> 01:18:29.319
the increasingly creased cream. Dafta. Oh, then the taffeta was
1434
01:18:29.359 --> 01:18:32.279
thrown to the floor and he's softly kissing her breasts
1435
01:18:32.760 --> 01:18:35.840
under the blankets, he murmured, but oddly that was Kate's
1436
01:18:35.880 --> 01:18:38.039
measure of treasury. So they lay on top of the
1437
01:18:38.079 --> 01:18:40.880
tangle of half shed clothes. She's like, no, if I
1438
01:18:40.920 --> 01:18:45.760
get in bed with you and I'm cheating, and if
1439
01:18:45.840 --> 01:18:47.800
I kiss you on the lips, then I'm betraying my
1440
01:18:47.960 --> 01:18:55.479
love for Judy. So they kiss, kiss, canoodle, lay triumph.
1441
01:18:55.520 --> 01:18:58.840
Nick lay triumphantly naked on top of Kate's yearning body.
1442
01:18:59.399 --> 01:19:02.079
But something was quite right, thought Kate, as she slid
1443
01:19:02.119 --> 01:19:04.760
one arm down Nick's body to caress him with her hand.
1444
01:19:05.039 --> 01:19:07.840
It was as if he's done it already. As she
1445
01:19:07.960 --> 01:19:11.239
touched him, Nick flinched, then kissed her with renewed ardor,
1446
01:19:11.319 --> 01:19:13.720
moving himself away from her hand. Ten minutes later, she
1447
01:19:13.720 --> 01:19:17.039
feels him again. Oh it's something's wrong. Little pouches and
1448
01:19:17.159 --> 01:19:22.359
limp flesh against the bomb, Nick again removed. They both
1449
01:19:22.359 --> 01:19:25.640
felt embarrassed. They neither of them knew what to do next.
1450
01:19:26.319 --> 01:19:28.600
In a frenzy of misery, they threw their arms around
1451
01:19:28.640 --> 01:19:32.159
each other and cuddled tenderly as friends, warm and comforted
1452
01:19:32.239 --> 01:19:35.680
in each other's arms, but they both felt sad. So
1453
01:19:35.760 --> 01:19:37.640
they try to hook up, but like he couldn't get
1454
01:19:37.640 --> 01:19:41.760
there and make it happen. Yeah, yeah, because that's just
1455
01:19:41.800 --> 01:19:44.640
not the relationship. It's just not how they are. He's
1456
01:19:44.640 --> 01:19:47.840
in love with Judy. She's just looking for comfort and
1457
01:19:47.920 --> 01:19:51.479
he just probably feels too, I don't know, like familial
1458
01:19:51.720 --> 01:19:53.520
or if it's just weird, you know.
1459
01:19:53.680 --> 01:19:54.119
I get it.
1460
01:19:54.239 --> 01:19:57.119
Yep, this is exactly why we could never hook up.
1461
01:19:57.239 --> 01:19:59.520
Oh god, it would just be as much as you
1462
01:19:59.600 --> 01:20:05.520
press side try, but it'd just be a mushing contest.
1463
01:20:05.560 --> 01:20:09.279
I don't know, I don't know the expressions. It's not
1464
01:20:09.319 --> 01:20:11.600
a problem that's ever happened to me, just us guys.
1465
01:20:11.640 --> 01:20:12.199
We've tried.
1466
01:20:12.239 --> 01:20:15.199
It didn't work. Just a lot of cranked and I
1467
01:20:15.439 --> 01:20:16.800
cranked and I cranked.
1468
01:20:16.600 --> 01:20:19.760
A lot of smushing and awkwards luck giggles. But we
1469
01:20:19.760 --> 01:20:24.600
were both very funny about the whole thing was especially
1470
01:20:25.119 --> 01:20:28.199
but where you smashed mys try to get them to work.
1471
01:20:32.720 --> 01:20:35.520
Vaccine crunched down in the snow and the snow covered
1472
01:20:35.560 --> 01:20:38.199
blue shadowed street towards Kate, who was shivering under the
1473
01:20:38.199 --> 01:20:41.359
street lamp. Without a word. They clasped it in hands
1474
01:20:41.640 --> 01:20:46.520
and go back in and are fucking immediately caught no
1475
01:20:46.680 --> 01:20:49.720
by the matron. She was waiting at the door for them.
1476
01:20:50.680 --> 01:20:54.279
The door flings open. You should be a shamed of yourselves.
1477
01:20:54.800 --> 01:21:01.960
Your guard, my head masters. She'd rags for him. The
1478
01:21:02.039 --> 01:21:06.760
two girls immediately to Shardon's office, so something happened. She
1479
01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:09.159
knew they were out and she was waiting for them,
1480
01:21:09.319 --> 01:21:13.239
and they get to show Dan and Shardon, by the way,
1481
01:21:13.720 --> 01:21:16.680
is pacing around in a maroon silk dressing gown.
1482
01:21:17.000 --> 01:21:27.640
Okay cool, so yeah, yeah, Monsieurgean.
1483
01:21:30.119 --> 01:21:34.119
Yeah, so he's Pagan wrapped in her shabby camel's hair.
1484
01:21:34.720 --> 01:21:37.880
Jaeger dressing around on the lines of a monk's habit,
1485
01:21:37.960 --> 01:21:42.920
but yanked around her waist is also there. She looked unhappy.
1486
01:21:43.239 --> 01:21:45.359
She had been awakened at three o'clock in that morning
1487
01:21:45.399 --> 01:21:48.079
by Matron, whose white hair hung in a long plate
1488
01:21:48.439 --> 01:21:51.680
over her dressing gown. Pagan's mother had been on the telephone.
1489
01:21:51.920 --> 01:21:55.039
Her grandfather had suffered a massive heart attack that afternoon,
1490
01:21:55.319 --> 01:21:58.039
had collapsed in the stables and died shortly after midnight.
1491
01:21:58.119 --> 01:22:00.760
But that meant Matron came to wake her up in
1492
01:22:01.640 --> 01:22:02.119
the room.
1493
01:22:02.279 --> 01:22:07.199
Pagan was to return to England immediately. So so the
1494
01:22:07.279 --> 01:22:09.199
matron comes in to say, I'm sorry to tell you,
1495
01:22:09.239 --> 01:22:10.880
but your grandfather has died, you need to go back
1496
01:22:10.920 --> 01:22:13.319
to England immediately. And then she goes, where the fuck
1497
01:22:13.359 --> 01:22:15.760
are the other girls? Yeah, so Pagan's in her room.
1498
01:22:15.840 --> 01:22:18.479
She goes to see Pagan, but fucking the two girls
1499
01:22:18.479 --> 01:22:18.760
are gone.
1500
01:22:18.920 --> 01:22:20.640
J Pagan has no choice but to be like.
1501
01:22:21.039 --> 01:22:23.239
I don't think she rats them out. Yeah, she says, like,
1502
01:22:23.439 --> 01:22:26.319
I don't know, I don't know anything now. Suddenly Kate
1503
01:22:26.359 --> 01:22:29.439
and Maxine faced reality. Shivering in their overcoats and the
1504
01:22:29.479 --> 01:22:33.359
unheated study, they trembled in front of shaw Dan, terrified
1505
01:22:33.399 --> 01:22:36.000
of facing their parents. The soft pink petals of Kate's
1506
01:22:36.000 --> 01:22:38.800
wilting rose floated to the floor, leaving only the long,
1507
01:22:38.880 --> 01:22:42.239
thorny stem of her hand in her hand. Then shaw
1508
01:22:42.359 --> 01:22:47.119
Dan exploded. He hurled every insult at them, from ingratitude
1509
01:22:47.279 --> 01:22:51.159
to wared them until he finished pointing a chubby finger
1510
01:22:51.159 --> 01:22:55.359
at Kate and shrieking out to you, you pull, you
1511
01:22:55.560 --> 01:22:59.039
chase every pair of pants in town, at which the
1512
01:22:59.079 --> 01:23:03.079
Irish and Kate rose again, and she replied, so do you, missieur.
1513
01:23:04.479 --> 01:23:07.880
There was a nasty silence. Then Shadan said, with venom
1514
01:23:08.279 --> 01:23:13.359
you'd both be expelled friend and skirting that I'm gonna
1515
01:23:13.399 --> 01:23:15.640
just do him as the as Emperor Palpatine or something.
1516
01:23:15.640 --> 01:23:17.800
Like the gayest Palpatine of all time.
1517
01:23:18.880 --> 01:23:28.319
You'd both be expelled, and then Pagan goes, no, they won't,
1518
01:23:28.960 --> 01:23:33.520
said Pagan in a tired, oddly disinterested voice. Il Chardane
1519
01:23:33.600 --> 01:23:36.000
turned to her, and who are you missed to tell
1520
01:23:36.079 --> 01:23:39.399
me what to do. I'm a friend of your friend Paul.
1521
01:23:40.119 --> 01:23:42.159
He took me to his house and showed me lots
1522
01:23:42.159 --> 01:23:45.279
of photographs. I think that he'd missed. I didn't think
1523
01:23:45.279 --> 01:23:48.079
he'd miss them, so I stole a few and left
1524
01:23:48.119 --> 01:23:52.279
them with a friend in town. But here's one. She
1525
01:23:52.399 --> 01:23:55.159
felt in her dressing gown pocket and produced a photograph
1526
01:23:55.239 --> 01:23:58.720
of Paul in bed with the two little South African
1527
01:23:58.760 --> 01:24:03.119
girls who had left so suddenly over Christmas. Pagan showed
1528
01:24:03.159 --> 01:24:07.119
the first photograph to Matron, then to Shadan. Then she
1529
01:24:07.199 --> 01:24:09.720
put it back in her pocket and produced her trump card,
1530
01:24:10.159 --> 01:24:14.920
a photograph of Monsieur himself plump and naked, and a
1531
01:24:15.079 --> 01:24:21.560
baby poised over the naked body of Paul. Of course,
1532
01:24:21.119 --> 01:24:26.119
of course, Paul has black mail material on Charden, and
1533
01:24:26.159 --> 01:24:28.479
he just leaves it lying around with his other black
1534
01:24:28.520 --> 01:24:32.119
male material because he's got to protect himself from Chardan too,
1535
01:24:32.119 --> 01:24:35.960
in their whole scheme, and she found it. And Paul
1536
01:24:36.079 --> 01:24:39.880
is drunk and clumsy and fucking inept and a piece.
1537
01:24:39.600 --> 01:24:41.680
Of shit, and she's smart as hell, and.
1538
01:24:41.560 --> 01:24:46.159
She smart as hell in fucking pockets black and both genius.
1539
01:24:46.199 --> 01:24:48.119
That she gives up probably give something to Nick.
1540
01:24:48.760 --> 01:24:51.880
Who knows, or Judy or or she didn't. Then it's
1541
01:24:51.880 --> 01:24:56.000
a lie either, but brilliant nothing he could risk calling
1542
01:24:56.079 --> 01:24:59.399
her bluff on, So she she has fucking Chardan's this.
1543
01:24:59.640 --> 01:25:02.920
This prontation goes on for four paragraphs before Pagan has
1544
01:25:02.920 --> 01:25:09.520
his balls and a vice. Uh huh, happy snaps, said Pagan,
1545
01:25:09.600 --> 01:25:14.600
with disinterested weariness. Happy snaps about the photographs. Had little
1546
01:25:14.600 --> 01:25:19.319
snaps yesterday, this scene would have been dramatic and terrifying.
1547
01:25:19.359 --> 01:25:23.119
Today it was trivial compared to her grandfather's Yeah, compared
1548
01:25:23.119 --> 01:25:27.000
to her grandfather's death. I can't help thinking that your
1549
01:25:27.039 --> 01:25:29.680
scheme only works if you play one father at a time.
1550
01:25:30.000 --> 01:25:33.159
If any father had seen photographs of more than one girl,
1551
01:25:33.439 --> 01:25:35.119
it would have been a parent that you were, in
1552
01:25:35.159 --> 01:25:39.119
fact a cheap blackmailer, Monsieur shah Dang, and that you
1553
01:25:39.319 --> 01:25:43.359
deliberately set those girls up to be photographed by Paul anyway.
1554
01:25:43.399 --> 01:25:46.239
He told me all about it. Nobody spoke or moved.
1555
01:25:46.880 --> 01:25:49.119
I think, he said. The going rate for fathers is
1556
01:25:49.119 --> 01:25:52.760
six thousand francs every three months. I don't really know
1557
01:25:52.840 --> 01:25:54.680
what to do about it, but if you take any
1558
01:25:54.720 --> 01:25:57.800
action against Maxine and Kate, I'm going straight to the
1559
01:25:57.840 --> 01:26:00.560
police and my story and the with my story and
1560
01:26:00.680 --> 01:26:05.319
the other photographs. So it's your decision. Monsieur Shadan Chardin
1561
01:26:05.399 --> 01:26:08.800
stood silent for a moment. Then he farten shot his pants, Yeah,
1562
01:26:08.960 --> 01:26:12.840
pissed his pants and died. Then smiled in a forced voice.
1563
01:26:12.840 --> 01:26:16.279
He said, miss, you are no doubt over wrought because
1564
01:26:16.279 --> 01:26:19.760
of your grandfather's sad death. Therefore, I shall take no
1565
01:26:19.960 --> 01:26:23.560
notice of your ridiculous accusations. And because I do not
1566
01:26:23.680 --> 01:26:26.640
want to bring disgrace upon my school, I will not
1567
01:26:26.680 --> 01:26:31.319
punish these two foolish girls. He cleared his throat and
1568
01:26:31.439 --> 01:26:34.640
paused to regain his authority. But I trust that they
1569
01:26:34.680 --> 01:26:38.199
realize the seriousness of their folly. It is just lucky
1570
01:26:38.600 --> 01:26:42.359
that none of your set is pregnant. Now get to bed,
1571
01:26:42.479 --> 01:26:46.159
all of you. The exhausted, frightened girl stumbled off to bed,
1572
01:26:46.439 --> 01:26:49.560
weak with relief. There was no need for further anxiety,
1573
01:26:49.640 --> 01:26:53.279
they thought as they wearily undressed. But they were wrong,
1574
01:26:53.760 --> 01:26:57.039
and so was the headmaster, because one of their set
1575
01:26:57.600 --> 01:27:08.199
was pregnanto it pregnant Aaron, will you put in like
1576
01:27:08.239 --> 01:27:10.000
a done done dun?
1577
01:27:10.560 --> 01:27:12.720
You always ask and he never does it.
1578
01:27:12.800 --> 01:27:16.199
There you go. End of poked one, beginning of pocked
1579
01:27:16.920 --> 01:27:20.239
Oh Ship chapter seven, one hundred and six pages in
1580
01:27:21.199 --> 01:27:24.840
uh begins next damn. There you have it.
1581
01:27:25.039 --> 01:27:25.920
I can't wait.
1582
01:27:26.000 --> 01:27:28.600
How fucking sick is that?
1583
01:27:28.960 --> 01:27:33.399
I wish that Shardon Sharp Sharp Boy and Paul were dead.
1584
01:27:33.760 --> 01:27:37.439
But the second best thing that could happen was we
1585
01:27:37.520 --> 01:27:38.399
caught you.
1586
01:27:38.399 --> 01:27:41.600
You're not gonna do ship and watch yourself.
1587
01:27:41.760 --> 01:27:42.760
I'm gonna So.
1588
01:27:42.880 --> 01:27:45.279
The other thing that's interesting about this is they know
1589
01:27:45.439 --> 01:27:48.359
this ship and have this material. They could just wait
1590
01:27:48.439 --> 01:27:51.439
until they're out of and fucking drop that ship on
1591
01:27:51.520 --> 01:27:52.880
them to protect once.
1592
01:27:53.520 --> 01:27:55.279
Get those guys out as soon as he has.
1593
01:27:55.159 --> 01:27:58.720
No more power over them. The only thing is there's
1594
01:27:58.720 --> 01:28:01.800
a photograph of Hagan out there, so they do have
1595
01:28:01.840 --> 01:28:03.560
a little bit of datonte, like a little bit of
1596
01:28:03.680 --> 01:28:06.520
mutually assured destruction. What I would do is I would
1597
01:28:06.520 --> 01:28:09.920
go to Abdullah and be like, hey, I don't want
1598
01:28:09.920 --> 01:28:11.960
to talk about it. But I have some photographs you
1599
01:28:12.000 --> 01:28:14.399
need to destroy in a guy named Paul's house. Also
1600
01:28:14.560 --> 01:28:16.800
beat the shit out of him. Yep, don't kill him,
1601
01:28:17.079 --> 01:28:19.319
but do hurt him. And if you can find anything
1602
01:28:19.359 --> 01:28:22.039
illegal in his house, they take it and will blackmail
1603
01:28:22.079 --> 01:28:24.000
him with it. But I have a photograph you need
1604
01:28:24.039 --> 01:28:27.479
to destroy. I mean, I definitely would stick the fucking
1605
01:28:28.000 --> 01:28:31.760
chik's bodyguards on him in a heartbeat. But yeah, so,
1606
01:28:32.039 --> 01:28:36.880
but so she does. She uses her own intelligence wherewithal
1607
01:28:36.920 --> 01:28:41.239
and she and she fucking counters's attempts to blackmail both
1608
01:28:41.279 --> 01:28:44.560
she and her friends. And so we end part one
1609
01:28:44.680 --> 01:28:48.520
on this like fucking victory where she had the presence
1610
01:28:48.560 --> 01:28:52.279
of mind to protect herself and counter this disgusting thing
1611
01:28:52.319 --> 01:28:54.359
that they just have to do to her. So she
1612
01:28:54.439 --> 01:28:58.199
shows she's a fucking boss bitch. What a fucking queen
1613
01:28:58.720 --> 01:29:02.119
and maybe a queen maybe maybe a real queen, maybe
1614
01:29:02.159 --> 01:29:04.439
a future queen and waiting and maybe a queen.
1615
01:29:05.159 --> 01:29:07.319
She's not a real queen in the future because she's single.
1616
01:29:07.520 --> 01:29:10.399
No, but maybe I wonder if she marries the chic
1617
01:29:10.479 --> 01:29:12.119
for I wonder if he dies or something.
1618
01:29:12.319 --> 01:29:16.680
Oh maybe, yeah, I think I think.
1619
01:29:16.640 --> 01:29:19.079
I think they might. I think they might end up together.
1620
01:29:19.359 --> 01:29:22.479
I think she's at least gonna go behind him to
1621
01:29:22.600 --> 01:29:25.079
his I think that she's at least gonna like spend
1622
01:29:25.079 --> 01:29:26.720
time in the Middle East with him. Oh, I can
1623
01:29:26.840 --> 01:29:31.479
imagine this like Lrentzia of Arabia moment for her in
1624
01:29:31.520 --> 01:29:34.039
the future, and I really hope we get that. But yeah,
1625
01:29:34.279 --> 01:29:36.840
what a star, what a queen? What a chapter? What
1626
01:29:36.920 --> 01:29:37.359
a chapter?
1627
01:29:37.520 --> 01:29:38.319
What a set?
1628
01:29:38.600 --> 01:29:42.159
Yeah? Crop, but one of their set is pregnant?
1629
01:29:42.359 --> 01:29:43.039
Is pregnant?
1630
01:29:43.399 --> 01:29:46.880
What if it's Judy that would be of That would
1631
01:29:46.920 --> 01:29:48.439
be a shock. That would be a shock.
1632
01:29:48.239 --> 01:29:50.880
Because she's the only one who's like sexploits. We haven't gotten.
1633
01:29:51.000 --> 01:29:52.079
We haven't gotten any of it.
1634
01:29:52.199 --> 01:29:53.880
I'm not having any I don't I don't have time
1635
01:29:53.920 --> 01:29:54.199
for men.
1636
01:29:54.680 --> 01:29:58.079
Yeah, I feel like we would, we would know, but
1637
01:29:58.760 --> 01:30:02.079
that may have happened. And honestly, off camera, maybe she
1638
01:30:02.159 --> 01:30:05.239
met somebody within the last couple of weeks. It's why,
1639
01:30:05.439 --> 01:30:07.520
Oh remember Nick says that thing about she won't even
1640
01:30:07.560 --> 01:30:10.479
talk to me tonight. I wonder if it's maybe because
1641
01:30:10.520 --> 01:30:13.000
she feels bad because oh, I've follow.
1642
01:30:14.520 --> 01:30:15.960
It's not that I don't want any man, it's that
1643
01:30:16.000 --> 01:30:16.520
I don't want that.
1644
01:30:16.760 --> 01:30:19.000
Which was true. What's true is she was like, oh,
1645
01:30:19.159 --> 01:30:21.159
I don't have time for men, but what if she
1646
01:30:21.199 --> 01:30:24.439
met somebody that made her reconsider that? Anyway, We will
1647
01:30:24.479 --> 01:30:26.520
find out all these things later. We will find out
1648
01:30:26.600 --> 01:30:30.479
who is pregnant eventually, although even just one of the characters.
1649
01:30:30.079 --> 01:30:32.439
Being doesn't necessarily mean that's even having a.
1650
01:30:32.520 --> 01:30:36.319
Child does not mean that she is our lace culprit.
1651
01:30:36.600 --> 01:30:42.760
It's a culprit, but like reveal our reverse Mama Mia reversea.
1652
01:30:43.479 --> 01:30:47.399
So yeah, we'll have to just keep chugging away, Apiece,
1653
01:30:47.479 --> 01:30:48.079
I can't wait.
1654
01:30:52.960 --> 01:30:56.000
Thank you for listening to Passages.
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01:30:56.640 --> 01:30:57.239
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01:30:58.079 --> 01:31:01.079
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1657
01:31:00.520 --> 01:31:05.279
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Production and editing by Aaron Schenrock rock hard music produced
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by Hogan Media, Hop, hop and comedy by us. If
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you yearn for more, follow us on Instagram at Passages
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