Chapter Eight - Part One
Felicity, her patience waning, waited as Jared prepared for the impromptu day ahead. She danced from foot to foot as she waited for Jared to exit his house and join her on the drive. He emerged from his home, a backpack slung over his shoulder, and locked the door. With a sense of adventure in the air, the two set off down his driveway, the day ahead promising the unexpected. “Is your mum on the early shifts again?” Felicity asked, breaking the silence, wondering why she hadn’t spotted or heard one of her favourite people. Jared and Layla’s mum was a nurse, and none of us could keep up with her shift patterns as they changed so often, even her own children sometimes struggled to keep up. But being the lovely woman she was, she would accept and swap any shift she could, if it helped her c
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