Those People Next Door
Chapter 18
Linda in Box, silly happenings. Talks about BLM sign before they arrived at the BBQ and Tom had “taken it out”.
Jamie in box. Tells of how Zain told him he was ‘Dumb as well as deaf’, got aggressive when not given money and didn’t think it was just for the dog. 100% sure it wasn’t his dad. Seen Zain on gambling app.
Jamie cross examined, not a gambling app it was educational, not actual money and no money problems. They climbed over balcony to hide friendship from Tom. David Adeleye incident – Tom said he was stronger because he was black, they were arm wrestling and Tom put weights on David’s arms but still won. Tom arm wrestled him himself and broke his arm.
Willa and David’s mum (Joy) story, tried to help out with social climbing, gave him books, ipad, tutoring. Invited to sleepover, David didn’t want to but ended up going.
Salma walking dog, reads paper. Rich is dead from an overdose. There are more no-go areas for her now that she’s avoiding Tom and Willa.
Salma wants to bring Zain home; Salma doesn’t want to live beside Tom and accuses Bil of not trying. Bil is and enabling her to go see Zain as she has cut back hours and he’s working more. She feels bad and apologises.
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