Chapter 18
If there was something scarier than the bad days and the blunt, flat way Darren had admitted to trying to kill himself three times—and once less than a year ago—it was, Jayden discovered on the following Saturday, the end.
The speed with which the spells broke.
Darren described it to him, after a lot of coaxing and a lot of cuddling the life out of him on Jayden’s bed, as ‘waking up fine.’ He seemed to be set from the moment he woke up, and reset sometime in the night. And it happened on that Saturday, after a long and hard week of Darren being largely unresponsive, absolutely indifferent, and difficult. So different from the dry humour and quiet confidence that it hurt.
And then Saturday, he turned up on Jayden’s doorstep as instructed in time for lunch, wearing that red be
