I try not to dwell on the past too much, you wouldn’t either, if you had my past. I try not to but it doesn’t always work, once a day when I’m trying to get to sleep I think of the day my life changed.

I only think about for a second before I push it away, but in that second I think about everything. I think about my 5 best friends who were with me that day. I think about the 3 of them who became enemies. Most of all I think about the 2 of them who became ghosts. Ghosts that haunt me every night as I try to sleep.

I’m lying in my bunk now, pushing the thought away determined that tonight I’m not going to go through this again. Then I’m reliving it, hearing the knock on the door, it’s a sunny summer day and I’m on my holidays. I’m delighted to see my 5 best friends on my doorstep.

No, I don’t want to think about it, I try and stop the memory. “Hey, you wanna hang out today?” Sally asked me.

It’s too late, I hear my reply. “Yeah of course I do, how about we go to the Hellfire Caves?” And now I’m wide awake.