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Chapter 41 - Harry

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                                                           ●•Harry•●

Three f–cking weeks. That’s how long I haven’t gone after Kirsten. No, I did not give up. I just decided to give her some time. She needs her space to realize she’s being an idiot? Fine, I’ll give it to her. In the meantime, I may as well organize my own life.

Let’s say that spending time with Kirsten kind of distracted me, and now I have a few things I should desperately finish before next class on uni. Nothing impossible, but I’ll need some time. Leigh helped me by taking the boys to their camping house again, so I don’t have to worry with two jerks constantly messing with things at my apartment. I miss going out with the lads, to be quite fair, but I need to organize everything first. Including things with Kirsten.

I also enjoyed these past three weeks to think about everything I knew about her, and put it all together. I went to the office a couple of times, and Leroy even came here once. Basically, what he told me is that his little sister started getting in trouble from the moment she started dating Tyler – what a surprise, huh? She left her house when she was twelve years old, and that’s when she started living with that jackass.

Her parents even tried to talk to her after she ran away, but she always ignored their calls, and each time Leroy tried to talk to her about them, she ignored him. He’s the only one of the family who she kept contact with. Now it’s been 8 years since she talked to her parents last, and according to Leroy, things are going to stay like this. They already gave up on trying to talk to her, and they even consider Leo their only child. It must be hard being away from family for so long.

I don’t understand how she does it. Why did she give up on her own family for Tyler? What did she have in her mind, to be honest? She was twelve years old, for God’s sake! Leaving home once you’re legal is one thing, leaving when you’re just a kid is another one completely different. Tyler was 18 when she decided to be with him, and I can’t even imagine how hard it must have been to her. His mind was completely different from hers back then. I mean, he was a teenager full of hormones, and she was probably trying to leave the dolls behind. I think?

At the beginning, she didn’t have Leroy’s support either. He told me that she spent two years without talking to him, and she only looked for her brother when Tyler got in real trouble for the first time – or at least he thinks it was the first time. He knows that the only reason why he can say he still has a sister is because he’s an officer, and he can be really helpful when the ‘love of her life’ does something stupid.

By when she looked for him, Lana was already into her life, so he doesn’t know how they met. Kirsten never told him anything about it. I’m not sure if he knows about how constantly Tyler abuses her, so I don’t know if he thinks the way I do. And here’s my theory: Tyler has been having this behavior since long time ago, so Kirs ended up at the hospital because of him, and that’s how she met the most helpful woman on Earth.

That’s the only theory that seems to make sense, to be honest. I couldn’t think of anything else.

When I asked Leroy about Kirsten killing someone, he laughed. Then he realized I was being serious, and he told me he never knew anything about that, and that certainly his sister wouldn’t do anything on that level. He knew Tyler had some contacts with drug dealers (though he doesn’t consume the drugs), gangsters and many other kinds of horrible people, and that Kirsten does help him with some dangerous stuff sometimes, just for the sake of her relationship, but Lee assured me that his sister would never kill someone; that she had said that just to scare the sh–t out of me. It worked, actually. I couldn’t stop thinking about that since the moment she said she had killed two people, but now with Leroy saying what I had thought at first, I felt a bit better.