So when Dad left to go to airport I went to pack and mum will get a movers van. When she got home I saw that she had been crying but said nothing. We put everything in the van! When everything was packed they packed something’s for lunch, Mum then got out an envelope with Tom name on it and she said she wrote this when I was in her stomach and hid it till this day! She also got a big envelope which I knew had the divorce papers inside which arrived last week left them on the kitchen table.
Then we went out of the house and left to start their new life!
I looked at the house and said “bye dad!”
Mum looked at me said “aren’t you sad?”
I said “yeah I am very, but it feels like I am going home and there is something better and where I belong and it feels like an adventure!”
She gave me a hug and said “ok lets go!”
The drive was long and boring I asked mum to stop once I knew it was longer than an hour away and got my book out of a bag in the back! As I realize mum wasn’t in a talking mood today… while I was getting the book mum took out her mobile and spoke to someone. Then we drove on and we stopped again to eat lunch.
I looked at mum couple of times and asked her how long till we get there and she said “it will be a few hours”
When it started to get dark and too dark to read my book I went to sleep and mum just drove on.
She woke me up at eleven thirty pm and said “we are nearly there! But I want to show you something!”
She drove for another ten minutes and stopped at a lovely looking house and said “tomorrow hopefully we will be living in this house! I used to come to this house and play for hours!”
I looked at it and looked at mum, she opened the door and said “come and have a look through the windows!”
So I got out of the car and looked through the window and gasped and said “wow mum, it looks sooo pretty!”
She looked pleased and overwhelm! And then she looked at her watch and said “oh dear, we need to go I said we will be there at midnight!”
Mum suddenly stopped the car and looked at me and said “we are here! You will like this place and feel more at home here, promise!”
But then mum looked out of the car window and looked at a house nervously and said “come on…”
So I will like it here? Why are you nervous then? But then I remember the stories mum told me. I looked at the house we parked outside and it seems familiar somehow, but I can be certain I have never been here or seen pictures of it!
Mum finally got out of the car and I did the same and walked towards the house, I knew the owners were awake as the light was on. I can see shadows moving inside the room. What I can see it looks like a lovely house has flowers growing up the building and it has nice garden I looked up and saw one of the upstairs curtains twitch and knew someone was watching us (it’s something I saw a lot of when we were living in our old house- everyone used to love looking outside to see what everyone is doing!)
When we got to the door, Mum knocked on the door with her hand shaking and I looked in the window and saw the shadows moving to the door quickly (far too quickly I thought), I stepped back but mum held my hand and made me move closer to her like she needed me there for support!
When the door opened I was very surprise because the person who opened the door looked like mum and I was confused cause I am sure mum didn’t tell me she had a sister!
But she said “Laura… Finally, welcome home! Was it a long drive?”
Mum said “Jaz! It feels good to be back, the drive wasn’t that bad… it’s a good thing it’s a long drive! How are mum and dad? Did you tell them we were coming?”
Jaz said “yeah I guess it is! Mum and dad is fine and no I haven’t thought it better be from you! Oh you must be Frankie. It’s so good to meet you at last! Your mum told me everything about you!”
Mum said “oh I am an idiot! Frankie this is my twin sister Jasmine, but we call her Jaz. And this is her husband Jack! Jack and Jaz this is my lovely daughter Frankie!”
I said “Mum!”
Jaz and Jack stepped back so mum and I can step inside! And told us we can stay here till we can move in our new place tomorrow, after we spoken to my grandparents of course! So we ate some supper, mum and Jaz talked non-stop, me and Jack just watched them speaking not sure what to say, we looked at each other once in a while and he said “we have a daughter about my age but she was very tired and wanted to go to bed but hopefully you will meet her tomorrow”.
Then he fell silent. Jack doesn’t seem comfortable with me and actually neither does Jaz, she keeps looking at me while she is talking to Mum… it’s strange it felt so right that I should be here but I also feel like I am outsider – I guess I am! It’s a bit awkward when I don’t know these people and I am new, how am I going to fit in this town when I am outsider. So I said to no one particular that I would like to go to bed so Jaz showed me the spare room and then went back downstairs and I can hear them whispering to each other.
I heard footsteps when I got un-changed and got into bed, and there was a knock “yes?”
The door opened and this pretty girl came in and I asked “you must be my cousin?”
“Yeah I am, my name is Alice!”
“Frankie.”
“sorry I didn’t come and meet you downstairs, I just woke up when I heard movement in here and thought I come and introduce myself and try and be friends as you won’t know anyone… around here or at college! Look I need to go back to bed it’s been a long day, talk to you tomorrow!”
I watched her go out of the room and closed the door, and thought that was strange but shrugged it off and snuggled into bed and fell asleep! |
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