Chapter 29
It was after dark by the time Scott’s hideously orange car turned into Attlee Road.
Springing Darren from the hospital had been dishearteningly easy: the nurses didn’t care to keep him, and no doctor ever materialised to explain what the damage had been. Darren admitted that, given that one nurse kept calling him Dean, he wasn’t convinced they knew who he was.
Leah had hugged Jayden goodbye and taken the opportunity to drop in on her sister in Bristol, promising to sort out the college necessities for him the next morning. Jayden had never hugged a girl so hard in his life and never been so grateful for her. He made a mental note not to ever forget what she’d done for him, and find out from Tim her favourite lager and buy her a case.
Darren had had to borrow Jayden’s spare c
