"Personally I wouldn't have bothered with him. Murder's so uncivilised." And besides, who wanted to follow someone that didn't even have their own nose anymore?

The flush was hard to miss. Avery shuffled nearer and leaned into the older boy's neck, watching his profile for a reaction.

"If you want to," he offered. "There's no one around to see..."

Avery was more than happy to let the talk about Leon's cousin drop. After all, neither of them were really interested in girls much, were they?