STELLA
Trying to calm down, I look around. This appears to be just a regular student’s room. Only it’s bigger and better. With only one queen size bed in the middle and a table at the side of the window.
It’s his room.
I continue to look around. There’s a magnetic chalkboard on the wall in front of his table. I see a collage of photos on it. A rugby team during practice, Xavier with a trophy, a young Xavier and Carter with a man, probably their father, a young beautiful woman with a boy on her knees and a baby in her arms… It’s their mum. She was gorgeous… Then I see another photo – Xavier, Carter, Greg and… Maddie. They look around ten or twelve in the photo. So, it’s true. He knew her for many years… Everything was planned for them… And I am just an obstacle… A weak, unnecessary h
