![]() ![]() Soon he’s getting calls about Mr Orange and, despite his mum’s best efforts, finds himself having to finish something his brother Andre appears to have started. When he goes to visit her grandmother and give his condolences, he leaves with Sonya’s Blackberry. Marlon’s convinced that the boys who spoke to Sonya a few minutes before her death have something to do with all of this. Not only that but just before they embarked, she convinced Marlon to pocket her stash of pills. Things take a turn for the worst when Sonya gets on the ghost train alive but is dead before they’ve reached the other end of the track. When Sonya Wilson, seventeen, blonde, gorgeous, comes knocking at his door, he’s not asking why, he’s down the local fair taking ecstacy with her and riding the ghost train, despite all his promises to his mum that he’d stay home, work hard and definitely not find himself in the sort of trouble his older brother Andre did. ![]() Sixteen-year-old Marlon Sunday is, by his own admission, ‘Not cool enough, not clever enough, not street boy enough for anyone to take notice.’ He reads non-fiction about the brain and listens to old funk records. Drug-Toting Gangboy ‘Kills’ Innocent Girl, with pictures of us both underneath for compare and contrast. ![]() The papers would be quick to pick up on it, probably scanning Facebook for a photo already. And me, I was the Hackney youth with the gangboy brother. ![]()
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