8. A car drive

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Carrie was waiting for Lynn outside the school as she left the main doors and hopped into the passenger seat.

"So, how was school?" Carrie asked. Lynn's nerves were still on fire with panic from when Clyde had hugged her she almost didn't hear the question.

"Uh, good." she replied. Whenever dad had asked her that question she would have given him lots of detail and then they would have laughed at something ridiculous together.

"Did you make any friends?" Carrie said hopefully.

"Um, I think one" Lynn replied, she was still unsure what Clyde was to her. First day of knowing someone and you hug them in America. Weird.

"Good, that's good", she says, definitely struggling to keep the conversation alive but it wasn't like Lynn was helping much. Carrie was wearing a revealing silk gold top, skinny jeans and her normal high heels as she rummaged in her designer handbag for the keys to the house. Lynn pushes on the door slightly and it swings open, either Carrie had forgotten to lock up for Mary had come back from whatever she does while Carrie is at work.

They walk in and saw Mary with the hoover running, and Carrie sighed with relief. Lynn went to her room and sat on her bed looking at her phone. In contacts, at the top, 'newly added contact: Lewis'.

Flopping back onto her bed and then getting up only and pace her room, Lynn was completely restless. She eventually decided to explore the grounds

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