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just the same.

And the cheek.

The cheek she’d started giving them, giving Jacek and Ginny.

It was hard to know where it came from.

It nearly

broke Jacek

to hear it.

It was hard

to live through. People talk about the terrible teens

it’s an awful cliché but

there’s truth in it, but

they didn’t know how bad it would be.

It was hard

to live through. They didn’t know what they were doing

wrong.

They didn’t know what had got into her, sometimes.

Drink, they suspected, or

worse.

The police talked about drugs, later.

And boys, no doubt. Older boys.

Laura couldn’t imagine the dangers she was

getting herself into, and

they could. They could.

That was part of the problem. She just

she wouldn’t believe

they were worried about her.

She’d wanted excitement, adventure. She’d wanted

nothing to do with them.

After

after everything they’d done for her, everything