About an hour later, the front door opened, and I jumped up from the couch. Mum had made us some tea, and we had been pretending to watch some TV. None of us were watching it. We were both too preoccupied digesting what had just happened. Mum gets up and puts her cup on the table and we both head to the hall. Dean walks in his body rigid, his face stern. But when he sees mum, he sighs, and I see him visibly relax as she goes and throws her arms around him, his arms snake round, and he hugs her briefly before they part and step aside. Letting the two behind them in.
I saw Toby first, who was sporting what looked like a shiner starting. He looked peed, real angry. His eyes glanced at me, and he smiled, just a small one, but the anger slipped just a little as his eyes looked at my worried f
