Invisible Tears by Abigail Lawrence

Author:Abigail Lawrence
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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Chapter 16

Dave headed toward the beach in Dover. After about twenty minutes along the coastline, we arrived in the middle of nowhere. It was fantastic to have the wind in my face, to feel free again.

The beach was mostly pebbles, not much sand at all. We hobbled our way over the loose stones towards the sea and sat ourselves on a mound of boulders. It wasn’t very comfortable or romantic really, but we sat for about 30 minutes and stared at the sea saying nothing. I studied the waves breaking on the rocks trying to make sense of what the heck occurred over the last couple of weeks. It all happened so fast, I couldn’t make sense of it. Dave had his arm around me and suddenly asked me why I had been so stupid? I didn’t know what to say. I just always seemed to have the self-destruct switch flipped to ON.

I felt safe and I knew I would be while Dave was around. He was so sensible. We lay back on uneven rocks and I rested my head on his chest. We thought up ways we could be together. Maggie and dad had told him they didn’t want him around me for a while. They felt I needed to sort myself out, and they didn’t want me back home until I had.

“Well that’s a never then,” I sighed. “I can’t be what they want me to be. I’m not what they want.” It was at that moment I realised and said to Dave, “I don’t think I will ever be going back home again.”

Time was ticking away. I knew I had to be back for curfew, and I didn’t want to spoil the first time in a while I had seen Dave. We arranged to meet the next day, exchanging contact phone numbers. I gave him the children’s home phone number, and he gave me his friend’s house phone number so we could stay in touch.

The next few days started feeling better. Dave was around a lot of the time, much to the annoyance of the home staff. They told me, “Dump him, he’s no good for you.” They thought he was putting pressure on me all the time. If anything, it was the other way round. I was getting pretty fed up. The staff had left me alone most of the time, but it soon changed when Dave came on the scene again. I told them I would think about it and to “just off my back while I decide what else I can do.”

Dave picked me up the next day. It was Saturday afternoon by the time we got away. We rode down the coast as usual, and although Dave was tired having been on guard duty all night, we decided to find somewhere quiet to be together. Sex was high on the agenda but we weren’t really that bothered where. We found a disused railway and followed it for a while. We came across an old bridge with a metal gate underneath.

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