'Life hadn't been easy for Lois since the horrendous gig in Lampeter.'
Nothing in this chapter is actually particularly bad for Lois, specifically.
Daniel and his band are finished. The record label, unusually, isn't pursuing them for this. Lois has got another job playing piano, to go with her cool shop job, making that 4 jobs she's had in one semester, plus her scholarship money. Lucky for her!
Daniel gets moody with her though for nagging him about being depressed. So he storms off, and they're broken up.
The next day though one of her handsome regular customers comes in. His name is Matt. They go out for drinks, then she goes back to his and they have sex, and she has finally lost her virginity!
Yeah, Lois's life sounds horrendous.
CERYS
Cerys goes to meet Marc's wife Sioned under the assumption that telling him that she's pregnant will make her divorce Marc. As is always the case with these stupid cliche plots, she's gonna stand by her man. She calls Cerys a whore, obviously, and then says that her and Marc have an 'open marriage.' Although, I think when Sioned says this, she's describing an open marriage where he's allowed to do the cheating, and she stays home with the kids and doesn't complain because she also says this:
'You're the third girl in the last ten years who's been in the same situation, thanks to Marc; he seems to think the university is like the Pick-n-Mix at Woolworth's, that you can grab anything you like and not pay for it if no one's looking.'
Yeah, Sioned, your relationship sound really happy. Sounds like that 'open marriage' is working out for you. Get a divorce!
Also, TEN YEARS? He said he was 36. That means he's been screwing students since he was 26. No one did anything? Sioned's father, VC of the university, hasn't put this guy in his place? The Welsh History department hasn't put him in his place? He could barely have finished a PhD when he started screwing around. When/how did he find time for academic focus since, like everyone in this universe, he seems to have no interest in anything academic. Sioned knows he's been screwing around for ten years, so they've been married longer, despite the fact that he is a serial cheater. Why did she stay married before he could have any academic career to speak of? Do early-career lecturers earn that much? This guy has NEVER been a faithful husband, father, or respectable university academic. Usually this cliche cheating academic is a bit older, because it gives some sense that they were once bright and happy but now they're in a midlife crisis because their wives are old and they've got all this fresh meat around. Marc though, apparently, is actually just a complete and utter depraved bastard lacking any sense of moral compass. Given how cliched Marc is though outside of the fact of being somewhat young academically, I actually am inclined to think we weren't supposed to notice that and neither Davies or the editor at Honno thought about how old he more plausibly should have been.
Are there any consequences to Marc for his latest indiscretion? No.
Are there consequences for Cerys? Yes. Because she's a bad girl, she's a whore, and they get punished! FEMINISM!
Hywel
Hywel realises he's done wrong and flees a life of looking after homeless druggies in Ammanford, where 'drugs are plentiful' (who knew?) and decides to rescue Meleri from the life of drunken spinster misery that she will surely succumb to without a man! FEMINISM!
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapters 10 and 11
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