If...

... I'd been less curious,

Older,

Less 'caring',

More mature,

Experienced,

Wiser...

Or anything like one of the things above, would that have changed what happened next?

Pivotal moments in our lives come with signposts, but do we see what's written on those posts and if we could, would we always appreciate the significance?

At Eighteen, I thought I knew it all, don't all teenagers think that?

Was I so different?

I was wearing a dress I wore to interviews when Kev picked me up.

It felt like an interview of some sort.

In the car I asked him, "What's going on?"

"I've told Charu everything, she wants to speak to you herself, wait till we get to my house, she'll explain it to you better than I can, I'm not even sure exactly what she has in mind myself".



Maybe if I'd said no when Charu invited me.

If I'd told Kev not to pick me up,

If I'd not gone that night....

But .....

I did.