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Taht ahead “Mum keeps our certificates locked up”

I frowned “Your brother is younger?”

“He’s a few years older,” Taetting started in life”

We slipped behind the screen of the trees and ht thisidiot as I looked, though Taure out what I orth If I wanted what I wanted, I’d probably better co

Maybe I should be bothered by this thing, but no, I got it I couldn’t be surprised she wasn’t that trusting

“You need to get a copy of your certificate Best case, your father’s naht there on it It’ll tell you if you’ve had a nae you don’t remember”

Taainst a tree so she was hidden from the rest of the school “Can I do that? Just order a copy?”

“You’ll have to have some docus I can help you with the details” I’d had to work out a lot of these things forforwhere all my details were on short notice “Then you can take them in to the place where you make your application”

“I don’t even kno I’d get there” Tamara turned her face up to the canopy of leaves above her “My brother drives me everywhere, obviously I can’t ask him”

“I’ll drive you” I said it without thinking about hoould sound to her, so I was a little surprised when her head turned sharply to me

“I… um… I can’t ask you to do that”

“You didn’t,” I said “I’ll tell you what you need to get, and you can come out with me tomorrow Get your application in, then I’ll take you…” I definitely hadn’t thought this through I wasn’t taking her to ht actually flip her shit and try to ‘expose’ me And it sounded like hers was an even worse prospect “We’ll go somewhere nice”

I wasn’t sure if she got that I was trying to get her really on her oouldn’t say she was stupid, but she definitely seemed a bit disconnected froe once we got into a situation where that mattered

“Oh,” she spoke up, just as she was starting to fucking relax a bit too “It coststo be able to pay—”

I coudn’t be fucked dealing with this anythe way she tensed up as my shadow fell over her, and puton a bit har