Chapter 23

Unlike Eli, I don't have my own computer. Before that day, he was a pretty big gaming nerd, so he saved up and bought a top-of-the-range PC. Mum and Dad offered to buy it for him, for college and stuff... until they'd found out the one he wanted was over a grand. They'd swiftly changed their minds then. But they still gave him some towards it for his 16th birthday, even though they didn't understand why a £200 laptop wasn't good enough.

They were going to buy me a laptop for Christmas.

Nothing special, just to use for my studies. But it would have come in really handy now. Eli does sometimes let me use his, but only under his watchful eye. He doesn't trust his 'tech-illiterate sister' with his precious baby, and I didn't need his questions today. Plus..

The PC had been in storage since our old house was emptied. They didn't allow it at the kid's home; they said it was so it didn't get damaged since we weren't going to be there for long, but I think it was mostly so the