Chapter thirty-two - Elsie

I'm so happy. I wake up happy, I go to sleep happy and everything in between just makes me more happy. I didn't know life could be like this and all it took was leaving my mum.

I should miss her, Laura and Dane keep asking if I do and they exchange looks of disbelief when I tell them I don't, and maybe at some point I'll feel something other than relief when I think about never seeing her again, but right now, it's all too raw.

Billy's getting on better with his Dad, which is good, I think? I'm a little worried since he's got some plan to get his parents back together, seeming to have forgotten that his dad was constantly cheating on his mum and making her miserable, but the last week he's been busy with some drama in his friendship group, so the parent intervention plan has been put on hold.

It's also meant I've