Darren lived in the middle of the wealthy Beauchamp estate, on a tiny cul-de-sac with unlikely name of Hayley Lane. It was on the other side of the much dodgier Carlton estate (the sort of place where people got murdered on a semi-regular basis) from where Jayden lived, separated from it by the wide main road north and a church that hadn’t actually given any services in Jayden’s whole life.
Beauchamp was a weird place, in Jayden’s opinion. It was entirely constructed out of detached six-bedroom houses with big gardens and gates at the end of the drive. Attlee Road was all terraced houses and box gardens, bits of bicycle on clumps of stray grass, and a notice about dog fouling right above a patch of pavement covered in s**t. Hayley Lane, when Darren led him into it, was nothing of the sort
