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she had put flowers in every room. Billy had said that it was hers to do as she pleased with, so she had been able to decorate it herself , which she had thrown herself into. Every room was different, all neutral colours and gorgeous textures . I t was of course filled with designer furniture and accessorised with   lots of funky lamps and vases. It was just like the pages of any good home interiors magazine, and she adored it. Her very own place all bought and paid for, who’d have thought?
    Tanya had tried on many occasions to get Billy to move in to the house , but he kept putting it off , especially since his mum had died , last year, and he said he needed to look out for his sister , Kate. Tanya didn’t have much time for Kate ; she was a nice - enough girl , she supposed, but it pissed her off how Billy went on about her all the time. She knew it was silly , but sometimes she felt Kate was almost like ‘the other woman’ in her relationship. Kate was always Billy’s first thought , and Tanya knew that on that score that she could never compete. She had to put on a front when Kate was around or even talked about, she was well aware that if Billy even suspected her dislike of the girl he woul d choose Kate over her in a heartbeat. R esentment bubbled inside her about it . The way Tanya saw it , Kate was the only thing stopping Billy making a proper commitment to her. She just wanted them to be a proper couple, to cook nice dinners for him and snuggle up on the sofa watching tel evision in the evenings. He always said he liked to come and go as he pleased and didn’t want to have to answer to anyone. She loved him, and would bide her time ; in the meantime she would take whatever he was willing to offer her.
              She threw on her gown over her tanned , naked body and went towards the lounge to see him.
    Billy was sitting slumped in the armchair and the room was in total darkness . H e didn’t even bother to acknowledge her when she came into the room .
              “Babe , ” Tanya said quietly, “ a re you ok ay? ”
              Billy was staring straight ahead with a real glare . S omething had really rattled his cage, she though t, although she had seen him in worse state s in the past.
              “Do I fucking look okay, Tan?” h e grunted.
              Tanya could smell drink on him, knew that he had been out with the lads earlier because he had rung her from T he Dog. Something must have pissed him off , because he had sounded fine then, quite cheerful for a change.
              “Kate is up the duff , ” he said , turning to look at Tanya, trying to gauge her reaction.
              Tanya was surprised to hear that Kate was pregnant . S he knew immediately who the father was. Everyone knew about Kate and Jay, the pair of them behaving like love ’ s young dream. They had been an item for almost a year and even though they both thought no-one knew, they ha d been seen about here and there and Tanya had known about them for a while.
    How Billy hadn’t g o t wind of it sooner was a miracle , as far as Tanya was concerned : h e knew everybody and everything. She had been waiting for Billy to find out about Kate’s little romance, hoping it would cause merry hell. It certainly wouldn’t hurt the soft cow to know how it fe lt to have somebody interfering in her relationship, Tanya thought .
    “Guess who the fucking daddy is?” he asked, still clearly fired up.
    I f he found out that Tanya ha d known about his precious sister ’ s little relationship and not told him , he would go ballistic. She leant down to light the half - smoked joint she had left sitting in the ashtray from earlier that evening, hiding her face with her hair to mask her expression.
              “Jay Shaw : the snide little fucker!” Billy’s fist clench ed as he spat Jay’s name.