I'm the dick. I should have said something but on no for the first time in my life I had to keep my gob shut.
She waited by the wall at the usual time and place that evening, but he didn't show.
She hadn't expected him to. She had just hoped he would. So, she could explain and apologise.
She couldn't go to his house for fear of meeting Michelle.
She would barely get a chance to say hello to him in school let alone properly talk to him about what had happened.
She walked home feeling the winter cold for the first time in two weeks missing her hand being in his and how he would put them in his jacket pocket to keep them warm.
