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ces that could have ruinedlike this to her?

I grabbed Steven’s arm as he was about to open his door “Steven, wait I’m sorry I can’t do this”

There was a flash of annoyance on his face, and then it softened “Because of your mum?”

I nodded At least he got it “I can’t betray her like this I should never have even thought of it in the first place”

Steven gently rasp and then took boththe other on top of them “That is why you need to do this, Taet thes this way, at least she’ll never have to be involved You’ll both be able to get what you need without hurting one another more”

“But is this soht to?” I asked “It was her life; I don’t res to ?”

Steven see about what I’d asked, which touchedthis much depth Honestly if you’d asked me for one word to describe him before this past week, ‘meathead’ would have likely been the top contender He was proving today especially that you never really kneas inside another person

I didn’t realise just howwhen he finally spoke “No, this belongs to you too You need it, you deserve it Everyone’s entitled to have the truth about what really happened in a situation involving theht get hurt So… e’re doing here is getting you your truth, without hurting anybody else”

He was like that the whole tiout what I needed to hand over when I got flustered

The lady on the other side of the counter seeet to see these docuave me hope I wasn’t the only person who’d co like an idiot

I nearly went off properly at the last hurdle: her infor me that I would receive my certificate in the mail in a certain number of days

Steven hauleda scene “It’s really not a big deal If you don’t want anyone to see, you’ve got a couple of weeks to get into the habit of being the one to bring in the mail”

“Well, Mum is terrible at that anyway and I don’t think I ever re it, so…” I was distracted by the fact that he’d put his ar to wait at this point, you know?”

Steven shotalways sucks”

It felt verysaid there… and it also felt like I probably shouldn’t press any further Steven took his arot in and he drove me up to the mountain, as promised