just the same.
And the cheek.
The cheek she’d started giving them, giving Jacek and Ginny.
It was hard to know where it came from.
It nearly
broke Jacek
to hear it.
It was hard
to live through. People talk about the terrible teens
it’s an awful cliché but
there’s truth in it, but
they didn’t know how bad it would be.
It was hard
to live through. They didn’t know what they were doing
wrong.
They didn’t know what had got into her, sometimes.
Drink, they suspected, or
worse.
The police talked about drugs, later.
And boys, no doubt. Older boys.
Laura couldn’t imagine the dangers she was
getting herself into, and
they could. They could.
That was part of the problem. She just
she wouldn’t believe
they were worried about her.
She’d wanted excitement, adventure. She’d wanted
nothing to do with them.
After
after everything they’d done for her, everything