The Runaway Schoolgirl (2015)
“Paul’s father had come to stay with us and it was Max’s weekend to have Alfie staying with him, so there would be just the five of us, including the newly one-year-old Lilly, who was now bouncing around again almost like her old self.
We decided that we would try to do some nice things as a family, but we were all feeling pretty emotionally drained by the events of the week before. Paul went out and bought all the newspapers, but we just filed them away for later as I was under strict instr...uctions not to read them. It wasn’t a problem – we wanted to put the court case on hold for a while and try to act like a normal family.To be honest, though, there was too much on my mind. We would put the TV on and start to watch something, but I would just drift off. I couldn’t concentrate on anything.
I texted Max to check that everything was OK with Gemma and he replied, saying she was fine. I wondered whether he was just saying that to put my mind at rest, but he told me she was spending some time with friends and that she had been OK.I had been finding the whole legal process mentally draining and harrowing.MoreLess
We decided that we would try to do some nice things as a family, but we were all feeling pretty emotionally drained by the events of the week before. Paul went out and bought all the newspapers, but we just filed them away for later as I was under strict instr...uctions not to read them. It wasn’t a problem – we wanted to put the court case on hold for a while and try to act like a normal family.To be honest, though, there was too much on my mind. We would put the TV on and start to watch something, but I would just drift off. I couldn’t concentrate on anything.
I texted Max to check that everything was OK with Gemma and he replied, saying she was fine. I wondered whether he was just saying that to put my mind at rest, but he told me she was spending some time with friends and that she had been OK.I had been finding the whole legal process mentally draining and harrowing.MoreLess
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