I was never taught that God was omnipresent, that he exists in everything. It’s another one of those silly notions like the trinity someone dreamed up to keep the masses in check. Of course if, in the beginning—or, I suppose, before the beginning—only God existed then everything must’ve been created from him and so in that respect we’re all a part of God gone rotten. If you believe these things. Or care. I wasn’t taught that God existed everywhere but I was taught that he could see everything, even into my heart. And I get why I was taught that. Because most of the time what stops people doing stuff is there’s someone watching if only a CCTV camera. After a while, and you see this in social experiments like Big Brother, people either forget they’re being watched or pretty much stop caring. Wandering through the streets of Edinburgh everywhere I looked I thought I could see B. although the chances were remote. It didn’t really matter. All I could think about was her. I didn’t care if God knew what I was thinking.