Chapter 13
Christmas ended. Darren only had about five days off, and one of them was the bank holiday, but then Jayden thought it didn’t matter much because he only had a few days before the lack of work being done on his coursework would catch up with him. So they parted ways the day after Boxing Day, Darren having to peel Jayden’s hands off his coat to leave, and Jayden feeling a little hollow place in the middle of his chest as the train pulled away towards the south coast, just like when Darren’s car had disappeared away from the college window in September.
And now he was back in that college, the frost thick on the ground. One of the benefits of being at Cambridge was that the holidays were longer for Jayden than other students at other universities, but the downside was that he ne
