Charlotte
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He slept beside me, chest rising and falling softly, and I realised I'd spent almost the whole night watching him. Every sign showed that he would be okay if I helped him stay on the straight and narrow. I'd taken that jelly ring off but I couldn't bear to eat it. He promised me a beautiful ring, one he'd design himself, but I told him if he wanted to throw money around he could pay for some instruments. Resources to deck this place out and help kids just like him, or the kid he had been. We could try to change the course of destiny for children society had already written off. I wanted to be the one to exact some change in a neighbourhood that held so many bad memories, for so many.
And he smiled. Because I knew he got me. Like nobody else ever had. You coul
