Joel Waters-Baker

E-mailing his parents to arrange a time to talk hadn't been all that difficult, but now, watching the clock tick down to closing time, knowing his laptop is going to light up at any moment with his parents' incoming Skype call, he feels sick. Charlotte knows, she hadn't cared, he has to remind himself of that over and over again, but there's a little niggling part of his brain insisting it's going to be different when it comes to his parents. They're both intelligent, educated, generally politically liberal and he knows they love him, but he's still scared. He can't deny it, he's outright terrified.

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