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to you’ said Kyle.
    ‘That sounds ominous’.
    ‘Well you see one of the reasons why I couldn’t sleep is that I’ve made up my mind about something’ Kyle declared. ‘And I don’t know if you’re going to like it’.
    ‘Oh don’t scare me, son. What is it you’ve made up your mind about?’
    ‘I’m not going back to the therapist, Mum’.
    ‘What? But Kyle …‘
    ‘ … no Mum. The therapist says I’m okay. Everybody around me can see I’m okay so I’m just not going back. Instead I’m going to get on with being the happy little gay man that I am’.
    ‘Kyle, I don’t think you’ve really thought this through’.
    ‘Alright, well let’s get down to it’ said Kyle. ‘Would it really have made any difference if my first sexual experience had been with a boy of my own age? Because that’s just what I didn’t want, Mum. I wanted to sleep with a man. I didn’t want to sleep with a boy of my own age because they don’t interest me. Older men do’.
    ‘But you were underage, Kyle’.
    ‘Mum, I knew where it was heading that night with Tim and I did nothing to discourage him. I wanted it to happen, Mum. It was my choice and surely its’ better that it happened because I wanted it to rather than someone forcing themselves on me or raping me?’
    ‘Oh Kyle it’s like you’re throwing a whole lot of numbers into my head but they don’t add up because it was against the law and Tim should’ve stopped it happening’.
    ‘Alright but tell me this, Mum? Are you ashamed of the fact that I’m gay?’
    ‘No, of course I’m not. Your uncle Lewis is gay too and I’m not ashamed of him either. In fact I think that him and Seamus have a wonderful relationship’.
    ‘Right’ said Kyle. ‘Well let me tell you this, Mum. That night with Tim was the best night of my life so far and I don’t regret it and I’m not the least bit ashamed of it. The therapist, the doctor both agree that I’m alright. I’m not mad or delusional and I’m not emotionally unstable. As far as I’m concerned I haven’t been abused. It’s only the law that says I have. Now if some paedophile had tried it on with Bradley or God forbid our Toby then I would be the first to cut their fucking bollocks off. But I’m older, Mum. I’m fifteen going on sixteen in a few months. I can get past what happened to me because I wanted it to happen, Mum’.
    ‘And if he was still alive?’
    ‘Then I’d want it to happen again. He was a tortured soul, Mum. He’d lived with some horrific stuff from his childhood. He needed our sympathy not our condemnation’.
    ‘He groomed you through me, Kyle’.
    ‘If you want to look at it that way’ Kyle retorted. ‘I accept that it was against the law. But it wasn’t against what I wanted. I’m not one of those sad victims lost in the system. I’m here and I’ve got you. And I didn’t want to bring this up, Mum, but I overheard you telling Uncle Jeff the other night when you were both on the wine and all the stories were coming out that you had your first sexual experience at the age of fourteen with a man of twenty-eight. So why is what you did any different from what I did? You told Uncle Jeff that you’d never regretted it and didn’t consider the man to be a paedophile. So why is it any different for me, Mum? Why were you a young girl getting up to no good and yet I’m in need of a therapist? I love you, Mum, but please don’t be a hypocrite. My head and my heart are in tune with each other and I’m fine so no more therapy sessions. And now I’m going to see if I can get some more sleep’.
    Kyle picked up his mug of tea and kissed his Mum as he walked past her on his way to the stairs. Annabel watched him go and wondered when her little boy who’d been so dependent on her had grown up into a young man who very much knew his own mind.   
     
    When Jeff woke up he could see that the press paparazzi were in substantial number across the road outside Lucy Thompson’s house.