1958

You held a pillow over your face tightly to try and drown out the sound of your parents fighting downstairs.

Eventually it just became too much and, with teary eyes, you climbed out of your bedroom window and sped walked to John's house down the road, hugging your arms tightly as you shivered in the cold night air.

You lightly tapped on his bedroom window and gave him a little wave once he saw you.

He tilts his head a little before opening the window and helping you inside.

“What’re you doing here?” He asked quietly, knowing that if Mimi caught him with a girl, even if you were just friends, in his room she’d kill him.