Chapter 1 Summary: Fiona, Marcus mother, splits with Roger, her boyfriend.

Marcus is interested about the reasons they split up and so they have a conversation about them. After that they watch TV. Marcus worries about her mental state and only chooses trouble less films and they order pizza and have a quite normal evening. Chapter 2 Summary: Will joins an afternoon alone in his flat to definite how cool he is. Later that day he visits John and Christine, both are friends of him. A few weeks ago they get a new baby calls Imogen, so that Barney, their two-year old haves a sister. They want Will to be her godfather but Will does not really like children. John and Christine also know Jessica, Wills exgirlfriend, thats why Will starts to think about her. Chapter 3 Summary: Marcus isnt able to sleep because he is afraid of school. Marcus is weird and he knows that the other kids bully him because they know he does not want to defend himself. But in the first period after break they read a book and then they discuss how to get to know if somebody is mad. One girl make a bad joke about Marcus singing in class and the young teacher does not helps him. Chapter 4 Summary: Will meets Angie, a young mother in a record shop. He likes her so he pretends he like children, only to get the chance for a date with her. First their relationship seems to work but then Angie splits up because she thinks Will wants not waste his time with a single parent mother and so she quit their relationship. Chapter 5 Summary: Fiona starts to cry in the morning. Marcus knows that is a bad sign. Later in school, at break time, Nicky and Mark, Marcus thinks there are nice, send him away because they are afraid of the older guys because they always harass him and they do not want to get their victims, too. Marcus does not have a great time at school in general because they always mistreat him because he is different. Chapter 6 Summary: Will pretends to be a single father because he wants to join the SPAT group to meet more women like Angie, who really impressed him. At the single parent group he meets Suzie who seems really nice to him. To join the group he invents Ned, his imaginary two year old son. Chapter 7 Summary: Marcus goes shopping because he wants to spend the weekend at his fathers home in Cambridge. But at the shop are some bad guys from school who following Marcus and put some sweets and other things in his pocket so Mr. Patel is forced to think Marcus want to steel them. But Mr. Patel has seen the boys and so Marcus can go home without punishment. At home Fiona tells Marcus that Suzie has invited him to the yearly SPAT picnic

but Marcus does not really want because he does not like SPAT.
Chapter 8 Summary: Will meets Suzie and Marcus in Regents Park to the picnic. Will does not know Marcus because Suzie has not tell him anything but Will thinks that Marcus is really weird. Will is not nice to him, his behavior towards Marcus is quite unfriendly but Marcus does not act better than Will. Later that day Will forgets Ned, his son, in conversation with Suzie. Marcus wants to feed a duck, but the piece of bread is too big and so he kills the duck. Chapter 9 Summary: Marcus is shocked about the dead duck. A park keeper appears to punish Marcus for his "murderer" but Will defends Marcus in front of him. The park keeper goes away. Then they go to get Marcus home. When they arrive at the flat they find Fiona lying on the sofa, looking really ill. She had a suicide attempt. Will calls the ambulance. Suzie is really angry about Fiona because she has a child but she is also afraid of the possible dying of Fiona.

Chapter 10 Summary: Will goes with Suzie and Marcus to the hospital. He tries to make Marcus happy and is friendly to him because he feels pity for him. Will now invents Paula, his ex-wife because Suzie wants to know the name of her. Chapter 11 Summary: Fiona has written a farewell and Marcus finds it when he gets home from hospital. Later that day Suzie comes to bring Fiona home from hospital. Marcus feels really strange. Marcus is afraid of his mother state and so he decides not to trouble her. So they spent a normal evening with no trouble. Chapter 12 Summary: Suzie calls Will and asks him if he could take a little bit care about Marcus because she thinks he is lonely. Will agrees. Will buys a magazine to find out what he can do with Marcus when he takes him out. In the afternoon Marcus calls Will. He uses the chance to invite Marcus to do anything with him, but Marcus only wants to if he can take his mum with them. Will agrees again. Later that day Will visits the Mothercare shop to buy a car seat to convince to Marcus and Fiona that Ned exists. Chapter 13 Summary: Marcus wants to go to Planet Hollywood because he has heard sometimes you can meet celebrities there. But they have to wait a really long time and so Fiona and Will decides to go to an other restaurant. At the restaurant which Will has recommended Fiona and Marcus tells Will that they are vegetarians. Will isnt able to understand this. He also cant find anything good at Fiona and so they all spend a terrible afternoon. Chapter 14 Summary: Will first times visit Marcus and Fiona. But now he really knows that Fiona absolutely is not his type. At home marcus and Fiona sing "Killing me softly" at the piano with eyes closed what makes Will sick. Later that week Marcus visits Will first time and they spent an afternoon together. Thats why marcus now knows that Will does not have a child but he does not really care about it.

Chapter 15 Summary: Marcus visits Will again. Will does not know why but they spent the afternoon gain and talk about many things like music and television. Chapter 16 Summary: Will almost like Markus visits. One day Marcus ran away from some bad guys from school and comes to Wills flat to find security. That day Will recognizes that Marcus is a real poor kid with no friends and no luck. Thats why they go out. Will wants to buy Marcus cool, but expensive shoes. Marcus does not want but at least Will can convince him. The day after Marcus visits Will again after school, but without the cool boots because the kids in school had stolen them. Chapter 17 Summary: Fiona is really mad about Marcus because she does not know about his visits at Wills flat. But she is also mad about Will because she thinks he is only so nice to Marcus because he wants to abuse Marcus. Thats why they start a real big arguing. But Fiona and Marcus have an argue, too. Fiona does not like that Marcus makes decisions without asking her before. Chapter 18 Summary: Will listens to his fathers song first time this year. He hates this song although he earns his money with it. Fiona calls him in the afternoon because she thinks Will already had taken part in Markus life because he chooses him as his personal mal figure. So they decide to meet to talk about the whole situation about Marcus and Will. Will really do not like Fiona, she seems too weird to him. But Fiona does not want Marcus at Wills place because she does not really like him, too. Chapter 19 Summary: Fiona forbids Marcus to visit Will but he will not obey her. At school Marcus has to talk with the headmistress Mrs. Morrisson about his shoes. At the headmistresses office he meets Ellie McCrae, a really rebellious girl at his school. They had a real weird conversation and Ellie makes jokes about Marcus because he does not know who Kurt Cobain is. Mrs. Morrisson does not really help Marcus; she only gives him finger tips to get out of the way of the shoe thieves. That makes Marcus really angry and so goes away from school, now he is a truant. Chapter 20 Summary: Will sees Marcus walking down Upper Street although he should be in school. In the afternoon Marcus comes to Wills flat again. At first Will wants not answer the door but then he open it. Marcus tells Will about the story with Elli and asks him who Kirk OZ Bane is and Will explains him everything. Will now see that he should teach Marcus how to be a real kid Chapter 21 Summary: At school Marcus talks to Ellie again and he recognizes that she is nice to him. Elli

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Chapter 15 Summary: Marcus visits Will again. Will does not know why but they spent the afternoon gain and talk about many things like music and television. Chapter 16 Summary: ill almost like Markus visits. One day Marcus ran away from some bad guys from school and comes to Wills flat to find security. That day Will recognizes that Marcus is a real poor kid with no friends and no luck. Thats why they go out. Will wants to buy Marcus cool, but expensive shoes. Marcus does not want but at least Will can convince him. The day after Marcus visits Will again after school, but without the cool boots because the kids in school had stolen them. Chapter 17 Summary: Fiona is really mad about Marcus because she does not know about his visits at Wills flat. But she is also mad about Will because she thinks he is only so nice to Marcus because he wants to abuse Marcus. Thats why they start a real big arguing. But Fiona and Marcus have an argue, too. Fiona does not like that Marcus makes decisions without asking her before. Chapter 18 Summary: Will listens to his fathers song first time this year. He hates this song although he earns his money with it. Fiona calls him in the afternoon because she thinks Will already had taken part in Marcus life because he chooses him as his personal mal figure. So they decide to meet to talk about the whole situation about Marcus and Will. Will really do not like Fiona, she seems too weird to him. But Fiona does not want marcus at Wills place because she does not really like him, too. Chapter 19 Summary: Fiona forbids Marcus to visit Will but he will not obey her. At school Marcus haves to talk with the headmistress Mrs. Morrisson about his schoes. At the headmistresses office he meets Ellie McCrae, a really rebellious girl at his school. They had a real weird conversation and Ellie makes jokes about Marcus because he does not know who Kurt Cobain is. Mrs. Morrisson does not really help marcus, she only gives him fonger tips to get out of the way of the shoe thieves. That makes Marcus reallly angry and so goes away from school, now he is a truant. Chapter 20 Summary: Will sees Marcus walking down Upper Street although he should be in school. In the afternoon Marcus comes to Wills flat again. At first Will wants not answer the door but then he open it. Marcus tells Will about the story with Elli and askes him who Kirk OBane is and Will explains him everything. Will now see that he should teach Marcus how to be a real kid Chapter 21 Summary: At school marcus talks to Ellie again and he sees that she is nice to him. Elli and her friend Zoe think that Marcus is really funny. Thats why Ellie takes marcus to the older pupils form room. On the way to get there a teacher stops them because he thinks maybe

Ellie wants to hurt Marcus but she tells him that she has adopted Marcus. Chapter 22 Summary: Marcus invites Will to spent Christmas with them, at first Will does not want because he thinks Suzie is mad about him but then he says yes. He thiks that they have a strange kind of Christmas and Will wonders about why Fiona and Clive can be nice to each other although they have nothing in common anymore than Marcus. Will gives Marcus the "Nevermind" LP by Nirvana, which nakes Marcus really happy. Chapter 23 Summary: Fiona and Clive have a serious argue about Clives joint and that he always takes drugs in front of their son. Then Suzie and Megan arrive for a drink and a chat. Marcus is angry about the others behaviour towards Will because they are not really nice to him. Suzie is angry about him because she always thinks that he really is an single father. But Marcus tells them taht they have to be nice to Will because Will is his friend. Chapter 24 Summary: Will meets Rachel firts time at the New Years Eve Party. He really thinks she is nice. Later that evening they kiss each other and find out that "both" have a twelve year old son, because Will does not tell her that Marcus is not his son but she thinks so. Alistair, Rachels son is also Nirvana fan. rachel and Will wants to meet each other again tigether with their "boys". Will also tells Rachel that Fiona is his ex, so Rachel thinks she has meet the perfect single father to fit. Chapter 25 Summary: Marcus is at Suzies New Years Party and Ellie is there too. marcus now sees that 1993 is not the best year he ever had. Marcus worries also a little bit about Fiona, bacuase people like her, that means such unhappy people, often kill themselves at such days. Because of that Marcus and Ellie have an interesting conversation about parents, suicide attemps and their roles in society. Marcus wants to dance with Elli but for her there is nothing more embarassing than dancing. Ellie and Marcus catch Ellies mum snogging with Tim Porter in the garden. Chapter 26 Summary: Will tries to explain Marcus why Rachel thinks he is his son but Marcus cannot really understand. Will wants Rachel to be his girlfriend although he only meets her once. Will wins the discussion, their go to Rachel and want to do like father and son. Marcus tries to teach Will pieces of information he should know if he is his father. Will is a little bit embarrassed about Marcus because Alistair is much cooler than Marcus with his cool clothes and such stuff. Chapter 27 Summary: Alistair is really mean to Marcus and he says he is going to kill him if his father goes out with Rachel. Marcus runs away from Rachels place because he is fed up with Alistair and his speech impressed him really much. Will finds him at a bus station near Rachels place; he can convince him to come back and tells him that Ali is crying like a little baby because Marcus left. Rachel tell them that her last boyfriend has not been so nice to Alistair as he has to be and so Ali is also afraid of a new relationship of her. Later Marcus and oe go shopping, while the girls buy chocolate bars some guys appear and buly Marcus. Bacause of that Elli hit one of them.

Chapter 28 Summary: Marcus is fascinated about that Ellie hit this guy. But Will tells him that their relationship seems more like an owner-pet relationship to him than a normal one. Later that day Will meets Rachel for supper and he tries to explain her the whole thing with Marcus but she can not really understand why he do that. Because of their conversation Will reconizes that Marcus means anything to him, that he had become vulnerable. Chapter 29 Summary: Marcus haves some good weeks without realizing it but then Fiona starts the morning crying again. Marcus tells Will that his mum is depressed again and wants hin to help her. But Will explains Marcus that they only are frerinds althuogh if he is an adult and so it is not his duty to care about his mum. At school Ellie is sad because Kurt Cobain had an suicide attemp but Marcus can not understand her because he thinks that his mum is more real than him and so his problem is uch more important than hers. Chapter 30 Summary: Will haves a really strange mood, so he decides to visit Rachel. He can not understand why they have had no sex yet. Few time later she wants him to her bedroom and then tey have sex. Later rachel explains Will why Fiona is such depressed and she agreed to talk to her. Chapter 31 Summary: Marcusdad break his collar bone and so Fiona wants him to visit him but Marcus does not feel pity for his dad. But he haves to go. Ellie wants to come with him, what makes marcus happy. At the day they want to leave, Kurt Cobain committs suicide. Marcus wants to hide this news from Ellie but she already knows it. Chapter 32 Summary: Will,Rachel and Fina will meet for supper but rachel does not appear, so Will is alone with Fiona and now he is forced to talk to her. Fiona cries a lot but he can help a little bit because he listens to her. Later that evening they leave the bar and go to Pizza Express and order some pizza. Will now knows Fiona better than before. Fiona is worries about Marcus because she knowas that Kurt Cobain killed himself. Chapter 33 Summary: Ellie gets drunk at the train to Cambridge and they have a great conversation about their lives and the general sense of life. Suddenly, at the next station, Ellie leaves the train and Marcus follows her. Ellie destroys a window of a record shop becaus there hang a picture of Kurt Cobain. So Marcus and Ellie have to go to the police station because of the broke window. Later Clive and Lindsey arrive and Marcus and Ellie have a interrestin discussion about about Clive and his care about his son and Fionas suicide attempt. Chapter 34 Summary: Katrina, Ellies mum informs Fiona about everything and so they call Will to drive them to Royston. When they arrive there really bad vibes at the police station. The owner of the record shop, Ruth, arrives and first Elliue hates her because she thinks Ruth only wants to make money with Kurt Cobain but then she realizes taht both are huge fans

of him. Later they all can go and so they go to eat some burger. Marcus haves an argue with his father because he wants him to come with him but Fiona wants him back to London. Chapter 35 Summary: Marcus stays with his father. Clive thinks alot about his live since his accident, now he knows that he has been a bad father and wantsn to change his behaviour towards Marcus. Marcus make some jokes about Clives broken collar bone. They also talk about Lindsey because she wants a baby with Clive. Chapter 36 Summary: Will now knows that he loves Rachel. He goes out with Ali and Marcus to give their mothers a break. Ali askes Will if he wants to marry Rachel and now Will have to think about it. Fiona is worries because Marcus seems much older now but Will tries to explain her that this is good for him. He makes a test: Will wants Marcus to sing a Joni Mitchell song but Marcus does not want to. Now Will knows that he haves help Marcus to change himself. Marcus and oe go shopping, while the girls buy chocolate bars some guys appear and buly Marcus. Bacause of that Elli hit one of them.

Chapter 28 Summary: Marcus is fascinated about that Ellie hit this guy. But Will tells him that their relationship seems more like an owner-pet relationship to him than a normal one. Later that day Will meets Rachel for supper and he tries to explain her the whole thing with Marcus but she can not really understand why he do that. Because of their conversation Will reconizes that Marcus means anything to him, that he had become vulnerable. Chapter 29 Summary: Marcus haves some good weeks without realizing it but then Fiona starts the morning crying again. Marcus tells Will that his mum is depressed again and wants hin to help her. But Will explains Marcus that they only are frerinds althuogh if he is an adult and so it is not his duty to care about his mum. At school Ellie is sad because Kurt Cobain had an suicide attemp but Marcus can not understand her because he thinks that his mum is more real than him and so his problem is uch more important than hers. Chapter 30 Summary: Will haves a really strange mood, so he decides to visit Rachel. He can not understand why they have had no sex yet. Few time later she wants him to her bedroom and then tey have sex. Later rachel explains Will why Fiona is such depressed and she agreed to talk to her. Chapter 31 Summary: Marcusdad break his collar bone and so Fiona wants him to visit him but Marcus does not feel pity for his dad. But he haves to go. Ellie wants to come with him, what makes

marcus happy. At the day they want to leave, Kurt Cobain committs suicide. Marcus wants to hide this news from Ellie but she already knows it. Chapter 32 Summary: Will,Rachel and Fina will meet for supper but rachel does not appear, so Will is alone with Fiona and now he is forced to talk to her. Fiona cries a lot but he can help a little bit because he listens to her. Later that evening they leave the bar and go to Pizza Express and order some pizza. Will now knows Fiona better than before. Fiona is worries about Marcus because she knowas that Kurt Cobain killed himself. Chapter 33 Summary: Ellie gets drunk at the train to Cambridge and they have a great conversation about their lives and the general sense of life. Suddenly, at the next station, Ellie leaves the train and Marcus follows her. Ellie destroys a window of a record shop becaus there hang a picture of Kurt Cobain. So Marcus and Ellie have to go to the police station because of the broke window. Later Clive and Lindsey arrive and Marcus and Ellie have a interrestin discussion about about Clive and his care about his son and Fionas suicide attempt. Chapter 34 Summary: Katrina, Ellies mum informs Fiona about everything and so they call Will to drive them to Royston. When they arrive there really bad vibes at the police station. The owner of the record shop, Ruth, arrives and first Elliue hates her because she thinks Ruth only wants to make money with Kurt Cobain but then she realizes taht both are huge fans of him. Later they all can go and so they go to eat some burger. Marcus haves an argue with his father because he wants him to come with him but Fiona wants him back to London. Chapter 35 Summary: Marcus stays with his father. Clive thinks alot about his live since his accident, now he knows that he has been a bad father and wantsn to change his behaviour towards Marcus. Marcus make some jokes about Clives broken collar bone. They also talk about Lindsey because she wants a baby with Clive. Chapter 36 Summary: Will now knows that he loves Rachel. He goes out with Ali and Marcus to give their mothers a break. Ali askes Will if he wants to marry Rachel and now Will have to think about it. Fiona is worries because Marcus seems much older now but Will tries to explain her that this is good for him. He makes a test: Will wants Marcus to sing a Joni Mitchell song but Marcus does not want to. Now Will knows that he haves help Marcus to change himself.