MAXINE'S POINT OF VIEW
Me and Marcus were watching mum through the window and she was literally kissing Adrian Meyer like they had been starving for each other in a desert or something. Gross. Absolutely gross. I whispered it under my breath and Marcus didn’t even react. He just stared at the scene like his lungs forgot how to breathe. His face fell in a way I had never seen before. His shoulders dropped. His hands fell limp to his sides. Even when he stopped breathing for a second he didn’t blink.
I think that moment broke him.
When she finally walked back inside she didn’t even look up. She passed us by in the hallway like we were two useless houseplants and closed the curtains. Then she went upstairs and we went to Marcus’s room. He didn’t even talk at first. He just sat there on his
