“Interesting,” she crossed her legs, “were you trying to grow up faster?”
“I don’t know about faster, I certainly developed physically much more quickly but I was very active in sports and outdoor activities. I think I just associated older girls with maturity, they looked after me, some for selfish reasons because it made them look more popular but others were actually looking after me. I fought a few battles in the first year of high school but then one day an older girl walked past in the street when I was facing down four girls threatening to rub dog shite in my hair. She grabbed the biggest girl and shoved her face against a wall and told her to f**k off or she’d bash her brains in.”
I closed my eyes as the memory came back.
“Her name was Diana and she was the first girl I ever had
