Chapter 14
It had been the longest five days of Jayden’s life.
He had lucked out: Darren and Charley both always went away over the Christmas holidays, but they only overlapped by five days. For five days, including New Year, Darren was still in Switzerland, and Charley was in the cheaper Blackpool visiting her Nana. For five days, Jayden was restless, bored, and desperate for Darren to come back. And he didn’t even have Charley to distract him.
But it was only five days.
Which meant on Saturday morning, he was out of bed before Mum could summon him, and waiting patiently on f*******: for Darren’s poor English to finally, at ten past ten, tell the world that he was back in England, and still no snow. WTH, England?!
He liked it. By the time he’d texted Darren his marching orders, fetch
