"Okay, now tell me everything?" Lucien's voice crackled through the receiver of my new phone. "I swear, he better have been on his hands and knees begging for forgiveness or else I will beat him with a broom handle."

Lying beneath my bed, my old phone screen down and being used as a torch, the small area had become my secret hideout. My pillow was tucked beneath my head and I had made my bedsheets fall either side of the bedframe, caging me in.

"He gave me a golden dinosaur sticker," I gushed to my friend, still feeling the same tickly fingers in my stomach that had been there when...