Chapter 33

Cole

I woke up on Saturday to a beautiful blue sky. Finally spring had arrived, and it was starting to warm up again.

Spring was without a doubt, my favourite time of year. Some of my favourite flowers were those that came out in spring, and I Ioved the lime green colour of the trees with their brand new leaves. Everything looked and smelt better in spring. If spring was a feeling, it would be ‘hope’.

As soon as I finished my breakfast I started to put on my beat up old trainers.

“Where you going?” my dad asked.

“You don’t want to know,” I replied.

My dad sighed. “It doesn't matter what I say does it?”

I smiled sheepishly feeling a little guilty. I wasn’t a bad boy at all, and I loved and respected my dad a lot, but this was one thing we could never agree on.

It probably didn’t help that my dad worked for the Police.

“I’m not doing any harm to anyone,” I argued back.

“That doesn’t make it right,” my dad said.

We’d been over this same argument hundreds of times.

I finished tying m