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takes the coin from him, and says, ‘Shut up about the rabbit. Just take your shoes off and come upstairs. I’m playing Crazy Bugs and I’ve got to level two already.’
    â€˜Cool,’ says Konrad.
    Half an hour later, they are both on level five, and Konrad is laughing so hard that the tears are running down his cheeks. Because firstly, this game really is very funny, and secondly, Fridz can be really sharp about what’s happening, and funny too. If she doesn’t stop soon, Konrad is going to explode. His stomach hurts from laughing.
    â€˜Ahh!’ she says now. ‘Just you wait, you evil spawn of blue-spotted horse-poo flies! I’m going to mash you into brown horse-pooh mush.’ With that, she makes the little man on the screen race around like mad with his fly-swatter. But instead of catching a single bug, he knocks the dishes off a little table, the flowers off the windowsill and the pictures off the walls. In the end, he even knocks a hole in the window, through which more and more and yet more insects comepouring into the virtual room. Konrad can hardly breathe, he is laughing so hard. Sebastian from number 9a, who would quite happily play Crazy Bugs 2 all day, takes the game completely seriously. The first time they sat together at the computer and Konrad let a few bugs go that he could easily have caught on level two, Sebastian got really cross with him. ‘I’ll never get to level five if I play with you,’ he’d said.
    But Fridz is unbelievably expert at Crazy Bugs 3 . They’d got to level five in no time, but then Fridz had suddenly started messing about. Of course, their lovely level five score was in ruins within seconds, because the new bugs immediately free the ones Konrad and Fridz had just captured, and then the whole lot start swarming all over the little man, who’s screeching like mad now and scratching himself. The bug-counter on the left of the screen is rattling away downwards at a great rate towards zero, until finally the signs light up that tell you you are the lousiest bug-catcher under the sun. And the computer laughs wickedly.
    â€˜That’s that!’ cries Fridz. ‘So what’ll we do now?’
    â€˜Play mothers and fathers?’ says Konrad.
    Oh no! How on earth did he let that out? It must have to do with the mood of hilarity Fridz has created with her smart remarks and all her fooling about at the computer.
    Mothers and fathers, of all things! Because that’s every girl’s favourite thing to play. And of all the utterly embarrassing games on earth, this one is the most embarrassing. What’s he going to do now, if Fridz says, ‘Super’? But that is not what she says at all. Instead, she suddenly goes all serious. ‘Nah,’ she says. ‘We don’t play that game any more around here.’
    Oh, of course! Konrad wishes the earth would open and swallow him up. Fridz’s parents are separated! That was the loopiest suggestion he could possibly have made. He mumbles something that might, at a stretch, be interpreted as ‘sorry’. It had been such good fun until now. Hopefully Fridz isn’t offended.
    â€˜It’s okay,’ she says. And then she gives Konrad such a cheeky look. ‘Do you play mothers and fathers at home?’
    Konrad smacks himself on the forehead. No way!
    â€˜And your parents,’ says Fridz, ‘they’re still together?’
    â€˜Sure they are!’
    â€˜Nothing sure about it.’ Fridz taps a few keys and Crazy Bugs 3 disappears from the screen. ‘Nothing is sure. My mum and dad are separated. My real Uncle Klaus and my real Aunt Sabine are actually divorced. And my pretend Uncle Jürgen and my pretend Aunt Marie too.’
    â€˜Wow,’ says Konrad. He can’t think of anything else to say.
    â€˜Yeah,’ says Fridz. ‘And Paul and Elvira, whom I don’t call uncle and aunt, they’ve decided that they