David Balaam - No One Is Sacrosanct

“ . . . it’s all true, Liam. We were there.”

*

What I didn't know until I probed further was that Harry Wentworth, the care-home caretaker committed suicide the previous year - coincidence? Perhaps, but I needed to find out more regarding what Simon was going on about - ‘We were there’.

I found his apartment on a run-down estate in Vauxhall, South London. The twenty-story block oozed depression, but more worrying, danger. Shadowy figures eyed me as I climbed the stone steps to level nine, and found door number 93. Simon didn't answer at first. “Simon. It’s me, Liam. Let me in, mate, it's freezing out here.”

Gradually the door opened and I saw someone I didn't know, or so I thought. The dim hall-light threw a shadow over the pitiful creature standing in front of me. Having recognised me he slowly turned and walked a few paces to the kitchen at the end of the hallway. The kitchen light was a little brighter, so it was then I noticed he was wearing pyjamas and a faded dark green woollen dressing gown. The man in front of me could have been forty-one, not twenty-one. His face was sullen and unshaven. His once thick gleaming dark hair was lank and hung over his collar. He looked half the weight he should have been.

“Simon,” I started to say, sitting opposite him at the small kitchen table. “What happened to you, man?”

“It’s going to be fine now, Liam. I am going to make them pay for what they did, all of them.” His voice was calm and measured, in a strange way. Almost hypnotic as he stared straight through me.

“Who is going to pay, Simon? And what for. What do you mean?”

Although he was staring at me, he blinked as if seeing me for the first time.

“All of them, Liam. The ones that buggered and abused us, year in year out.”

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