Yeah man, we're together in all this, and we always will be. It wasn't the acts themselves that were important, it was the spirit behind them. Doing t...ings as a gang, and getting away with it, drawing the bonds of loyalty and solidarity even tighter.Well, that's what he told himself anyway. Even though his less than educated mind couldn't articulate the concepts, that was what he felt.Until he was seventeen.He and the guys had decided it would be a good idea to burn down the police station. Not. .. t-trial. Th ... the s-summons has come. W-we w-won’t b-be a-allowed to sit together if he p-pleads Not G-Guilty. I-I’m f ... frightened.”“Why, Penny dear?”“B-because he m-might come after m-me.”“No he won’t, sweetheart. He’ll be handcuffed to a policeman, maybe two if he’s really as big as you say he is.Her head came up. “Really?” It was still anxious.“Yes, poppet. Really, really!”Her head went down again and her arms tightened round him. There were more tears but these were ones of. I closed my eyes and began to think of life before all this, the things I would be doing now instead of sitting here. Images of past summers came into my head. Friends, family, everyone was on my mind as I sat there. I began to drift to sleep, forgetting all the chaos in the outside world. * For hours the same memories replayed in my head, finally been interrupted by the school’s bell. Immediately, I was awake and aware of my surroundings. It was hard not to be paranoid that those things had. That's not completely true... That first night he spent with you two, was pretty tough for me, but as I lay there, picturing what the three of you were doing, I saw that it was the right thing to be doing, and that ended my only bout with jealousy."But, Maggie..." I know, Sean. You're wondering about yourself. I owe you my most abject apology. I wasn't strong enough to do my part. I was to do for you, what Jake's mother, did for him, but I didn't have the courage. Not until I was faced with.