Fiction by Fiona McFarlane: All the time there was a stranger in the house with them, a girl who might have been anyone, whose name they didn’t even know.
I might not use their real names. It would be hard, though, not to reveal Roy’s, which seemed almost to have shaped his personality. His given name—much to his embarrassment—was Royal, and, in defiance of his parents’ grandiosity, he’d cultivated an unroyal persona. He was a humble guy, self-effacing. He lived his life—at least his public, social life—as if he were answering a survey about it.
After that, their plan was to head north, to the Great Barrier Reef, for a final, tropical hurrah, then return to Basel in time to start university. S wanted to study psychology. Daniel was supposed to become a doctor. S looked skeptical at the idea of Daniel as a doctor, and the wry face she pulled made Roy and Mandy laugh. S joined in this laughter and relaxed visibly.
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