I swallowed hard.
“Did Mum notice?” I asked.
“She’s out like a light, so you’re in luck!”
“Look, Dad, it’s not what you think,” I began to say.
“Listen mate. I think Angie’s a cracker, I really do. If I was your age…anyway, I don’t know what’s goin’ on with you and Laura, but I just hope you’re being sensible, that’s all.”
“I promise I am, Dad. It’s just that Angie’s missing her…I mean…the person she’s going out with. And she needed a cuddle, that’s all – nothing happened, honestly.”
He sighed, and turned the page.
“More fool you then!” he told me with a sly grin.
I smiled to myself and drank my tea.
Later, after breakfast, I had a brainwave. Angie and I had planned to go out for a picnic that day because the weather was really nice. I wasn’t sure if one of my old school friends w
