Read Online All the Way Home and All the Night Through by Ted Lewis - Free Book Online

she’s so passive and she doesn’t seem to have any idea about anything.”
    â€œWhat you mean is that she hasn’t fallen on your neck showering kisses all over the place and it doesn’t suit you to be so treated.”
    â€œYou must be mad. All right, so I think she’s more attractive than I did before but it doesn’t mean I want to marry her.”
    â€œAnyway, I should hurry up and get your finger out of your bottom and get stuck in or else you’ll be too late.”
    â€œThat’ll be the day.”
    â€œWhat?”
    â€œWhen I get my finger out.”
    â€œYou’re slow, Vic,” said Angela.
    Break time in the common room, on my own, on a high stool until she came up.
    â€œWhat do you mean?”
    She moved slightly forward, ostensibly to let some people get by in the aisle. Her hips gently rustled against my kneecaps. She didn’t move back.
    â€œWhy, how long have we been back at college then?”
    â€œLast week then two days this week. Why?”
    She slid her pelvis round a little more. I could feel the hard, bony part. I could measure her breathing with my kneecap.
    â€œWhy, Vicky, I thought you’d have been in by now.”
    â€œIf you get much closer I will be.”
    â€œRude.”
    She didn’t move.
    I said: “Why don’t you tell me what you’re talking about? All these hips are fascinating me but what’s the point?”
    â€œYou like the hips part then?”
    â€œI like the hips part. It’s the rest of it I’m not so keen on.”
    â€œThat’s why you tried to find out what it was like, then?”
    â€œWhen I began it was quite interesting, but the more I discovered the less I found.”
    â€œThat’s not how I saw it.”
    â€œI never saw it at all, did I?”
    â€œYou didn’t look hard enough, did you?”
    â€œI think so. As hard as I’m ever going to.”
    â€œYes, Vic.”
    She looked me straight in the eyes, sucking in her cheeks, pre-tending she was trying not to smile, as if she was humouring a funny lunatic.
    â€œOh, give over.”
    â€œYes, Vic.”
    â€œI thought you came over here to say something.”
    â€œThat’s right.”
    â€œSo, er, do you think there’s any chance of my hearing what it is? I mean I’ve only got another year at college and I was counting on getting one or two other things in as well, you know, before I leave.”
    â€œThat’s what I was talking about.”
    â€œWhat?”
    â€œGetting things in.”
    â€œHa-Ha. What exactly?”
    â€œWell, I thought by now you’d have been sorting out the new Inters. I mean it’s been over a week, and there are one or two sweet innocent whatsits that ought to be up your street, and what with your sans regular night-shift work at present ... I mean, what’s up Doc?”
    â€œI’m surprised. Surely you’re not encouraging me to go to work on the sweetnesses. I mean, by now you’ll have told them what a rotten and filthy old cabbage I am, you know, quiet girls’ talk in the ladies’ bog while you’re in there between break times.”
    â€œOh, I’ve given the word to anybody who I thought you might fancy. You know, I always like to help.”
    â€œHelp yourself.”
    â€œWhat, to you?”
    â€œYou’re always after a spoonful.”
    â€œCheeky.”
    â€œWho’ve you been telling, then?”
    â€œYou’d like to know then, Victor?”
    â€œOnly to keep away from the ones who’d talk to you. I don’t want to catch anything.”
    â€œI shouldn’t think you’ve much to catch it with.”
    â€œGet a second opinion before you talk facts.”
    â€œI would if I could.”
    â€œCome on, who’ve you told?”
    â€œWhat do you think of that Karen bird?”
    â€œWhy?”
    â€œI was talking to her