Steven Irish did his best to maintain an outward show of calm as he searched the grounds of the activity centre for Amber Reynolds or any sign of her with the others. It wasn’t easy for he was suffering from an inner turmoil over whether he should tell the police what had happened between him and Amber.
He wouldn’t normally lie to the police, he liked to think that despite what the pupils thought of him, he was a decent and honest person, but he had lied to the police twice now, and he couldn’t see how he could tell them the truth without getting himself into considerable trouble.
What made the situation worse was the knowledge that if he had told the truth in the first place, he probably wouldn’t have been in any trouble at all. Unfortunately, lying had been the first thing he thought t
