VIII. Avalon School ended, we had a six weeks’ summer holiday waiting for us before facing our last year at secondary school, then we were going to attend college and, two years later, university. I had left my idea of becoming a vet, I wanted to study “Marketing and Communication” in London instead. I had very definite ideas: I was going to follow the graphic course because I wanted to try to work in the advertisement field later. I liked drawing and I had got fond of Japanese manga recently. Sarah on the contrary hadn’t decided yet, she was living day by day as usual. Alison on her part was talking about going abroad, but she was held back by her mother’s health condition. By the way, university was still three years far and our only thought at that moment was going on holiday to th

