TRUE-LIFE
Sitting on the grass beside my girlfriend Grace, I spotted a familiar face approaching from across the park.
‘Can I join you?’ Chelsea, then 17, smiled, plonking herself down.
It was March 2018 and I’d been with Grace, then 16, for six months.
I was 14, and still working out who I was.
Experimenting with my sexuality. And with alcohol, too…
Life at home hadn’t been easy, and I’d been in and out of care.
But I loved spending time with Grace.
And though Chelsea, who was a friend of Grace’s housemate, often turned up uninvited, we had fun together.
Hanging out in the park, taking
