Chapter 27On Sunday lunchtime I was sat in a restaurant with my Mum, trying to behave as if I wasn’t falling apart inside. I thought I was doing pretty well until she reached across the table and took my hand, saying ‘trouble in paradise Darling?’ and so I told her. I told her everything significant that Jess and I had done over the last week and how it had all gone horribly wrong, and you know what? She laughed!
‘Oh Darling, she just needs a little bit more time. Since when were you such a quitter anyway? I’ve seen you fight much harder for less important things, so why are you just giving up on the woman you love without even trying?’
‘Mum I don’t know what to do, for the first time in my life I feel truly out of my depth. I don’t want to harass her but I can’t stand the thought of her
