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detective. I guessed Martha must have told them. “In the department of genetics, right?”
    â€œHuman genomics,” Dad corrected.
    The detective frowned. “Which is…”
    â€œDNA sequencing. Isolating the code for diseases, things like that.”
    â€œAh,” Detective Thompson nodded. “That must be interesting.”
    Dad opened his mouth to say more, then closed it again when he realized the detective was only being polite.
    Janet turned back to me. “Did Danny come round for any reason in particular?”
    â€œJust to hang out.”
    She paused, looking at the open pad on her lap. I caught sight of a plate with a half-eaten pizza crust just under the sofa beneath her feet. Jesus. How long had that been there?
    â€œSo, after Danny had finished his sandwich?”
    â€œHe suggested we go down to the seafront,” I said.
    â€œThis was, what…about lunchtime? Didn’t you have something to eat first?”
    I shook my head. “I had something there.”
    â€œWhat was that then?” asked Detective Thompson, looking interested.
    â€œWe both had chips. From the kiosk by the crazy golf.” I felt my cheeks redden and Detective Thompson raised an eyebrow. “Martha doesn’t like us eating them. She says they’re bad for us.”
    â€œDon’t worry, I won’t tell.” He winked, and Dad actually laughed. And for a second I saw the old Dad, the one who found everything funny. Was always cracking jokes.
    â€œOkay.” Janet glanced down at her notes again. “You walked down to the beach?”
    â€œNo. We took our bikes.” I had a slow puncture in my back wheel. Danny carried the pump in his backpack so he could blow it up again when it went soft.
    â€œWhere exactly did you go?”
    â€œUm, straight down to Marine Parade and on to Sandmarsh Fields.”
    â€œNice down there,” said the detective. “I often take my kids to the playground.”
    â€œWe went there, to eat our chips,” I added, remembering us sitting on the little roundabout, Danny spinning it slowly, one foot on the ground. The wide sweep of the sea, the long promenade, the playing fields and boating lake, the steep woods on Dane’s Hill – round and round it all went, till it was like the world was revolving and I was perfectly still.
    â€œI’d almost forgotten,” Danny had said when he’d finished his chips, lying back on the wooden boards of the roundabout and closing his eyes. His face seemed to have grown more angular in the last year, but the tops of his cheeks were still dense with freckles. Darker than mine; larger too.
    â€œForgotten what?”
    â€œHow nice it is down here.” He opened an eye and peeked at me, then quickly looked away.
    â€œSo why don’t we come any more?”
    I regretted the question the second it left my mouth. The last thing I wanted was to scare Danny off. But Danny didn’t seem to hear. He sat up, pushing the roundabout faster and faster, then jumped off and stood there smirking as I twirled around in front of him.
    â€œHow long were you there?” I looked up. Saw Janet watching me carefully and for a moment, a long stupid moment, I wondered if she could see right into my head. Actually know what I was thinking.
    â€œAbout an hour.”
    â€œWas anyone else around?”
    I thought about it. “Just a couple of little kids with their mums,” I said. “Danny was messing around on the baby swing and one of the mothers asked him to get off.”
    â€œDid you recognize them?” The detective sat up straighter.
    I told him I’d never seen them before.
    â€œAnd no one spoke to you apart from that?”
    I shook my head. “I don’t think so.”
    â€œSo, what did you do next?” Janet eyed me patiently. I knew she was hoping I’d tell her something important, a bit of information they could look into. I almost thought