I ran like a thing that runs.

And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.

It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.

I could envision it all to clearly: Stuart or Debbie finding the dented door off its hinges, lying in the snow. "She came in, ravaged the boy, stole plastic bags, and ripped off the door in her escape," the police would say in the APB. "Probably making her way to bust her parents out of jail.

This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.

Did I just kill someone?" "You can't kill a dead person," Callum said. "Makes no sense.