My parents are not educated, they won't understand. At the back of their minds many girls feel that perhaps, even if they told their parents, they would fail to understand, or take in a situation so different from their own educational experiences.
And always, at the back of his mind, there was the business with the Police.
Whenever he sat up, the preserve on his chest was intense. His stomach seemed to be floating on a rising tide that compressed it against his sternum. At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air, that his lungs could not sustain the pressure that they would collapse.