Chapter 4
They got home at quarter past ten on Sunday morning.
‘Home’ was a little house in a quiet street in Cosham, just north of Portsmouth. It was technically a three-bedroom semi-detached job, but the attic had been converted into a fourth bedroom, which Jayden had immediately decided was theirs, tucked right up into the eaves with a beautiful sky swimming above the bed from two skylight windows. Jayden could lie for hours falling into that sky, and once he had talked Darren into slow, slightly drunk s*x and stared at the stars overhead and had felt so impossibly immortal.
They had moved right after Jayden’s graduation, from the little flats in Southampton to this little house in Cosham. Rachel had been commuting into Portsmouth for a year to a new school after getting on a part-ti
