Page 39 of Forever is Now

All in all, it was a bad idea.

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Summer Taylor-Braddon: I told myself I just needed to move on. Ruari, though living in Bristol, showed no desire to meet with me. He had Mia. He had moved on.

Everyone was telling me to do the same.

It wasn’t the ending of the love story that I’d envisioned, that I’d dreamed of, begged for.

But I needed closure. I really needed it, and so that’s why I went there. Why I went to Bristol.

You all know that, though.

Everyone knows that—don’t they? Because when I went to Bristol, to see Ruari, to try and work out what we were going to do, because just pretending that none of this was happening, well it wasn’t working. But he wasn’t there. He’d gone out with his dad and Alex. And hours after I arrived, Mia was dead at my feet, and everyone thought I’d done it.

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EMERGENCY CALL AUDIO RECORDING

Emergency Call Handler: 999, which service do you require?

Summer Taylor-Braddon: Ambulance.

Emergency Call Handler: Connecting you.

Ambulance Call Handler: Ambulance Emergency, what’s the address of the emergency?

Summer Taylor-Braddon: [address redacted]

Ambulance Call Handler: Thank you. And is the patient breathing?

Summer Taylor-Braddon: Yes, she is.

Ambulance Call Handler: Is she conscious?

Summer Taylor-Braddon:No.

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