Chapter Seven
September 1998
They’d first met when they transferred to the same sixth form college when they were both sixteen – their respective families had both relocated into the same area. They were studying completely different subjects, of course. Greg was focusing on technology and computer science; Gemma on politics and economics. But they were both strangers in the school and long-established social groups had already been formed amongst the other kids. So they found themselves together at a lunch table one day and just seemed to like each other. Greg had never had a problem picking up girls; he knew he was reasonably good looking but he also seemed to be able to put girls at their ease and make them laugh. Probably part of it was that he wasn’t trying to get them into bed. He
