I'll be there

Part 3

Strange behavior

Matilda found herself watching her sister with some amusement as she paced the floor of her bedroom. Apologizing was never an easy thing for Kit, and even though she could be wrong a lot of the time she rarely ever confessed to it. Matilda put her diary under the covers and watched her sister more closely. She wasn't quite sure when she had become such an observer. But her sister seemed different. But then again now days everything seemed different. Matilda vaguely wondered when her life would ever go from playing to pause.

Kit stopped pacing and stood before her younger sister. She was rubbing her forehead, a pained expression on her face. "Tilly I'm sorry"

Matilda nodded her head "Your forgiven"

Kit looked somewhat relieved and sat down on the bed beside her sister.

"I just, well you know you can be honest with me ok, I'm sorry that I seem like I don't care. But I do"

Matilda held back her shock, this definitely wasn't the Kit she knew, since when had her sister become mushy?

"Are you feeling alright Kit"?

Kit looked up, her eye briefly flashing with frustration.

"Of course I'm feeling ok, why do people keep asking me that" she managed to choke out.

Matilda looked in her sister's eyes curiously. They were watering.

"Kit" she replied in an unsure tone "Are you crying"?

She huffed and turned her head the other way "Don't be ridiculous"

She stood, still not facing the other girl as she exited the room.

Matilda could have sworn she heard a sniff as her sister closed the door behind her.

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Alf Stuart rubbed his eyes tiredly and sighed as he climbed the stairs to his apartment.

Today had been quite a day. He had had gotten angry with Colleen, had overreacted according to Leah and had offend the very much annoying work mate. He shook his head, he had promised Leah to apologize to Colleen tomorrow.

He took off his shoes at the door before entering, unlocked the door with his key and placed the brown paper bag on the table. Much to tired to cook the paper bag contained the two burgers that two teenage boys up to mischief had ordered and left before their order had been brought out.

He walked into the living room, once being tired the scene that was displayed before him, quickly turned the drowsiness into anger.

The young boy looked up shocked.

Alf who was unable to speak uttered two words.

"Get out"

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Kit's behaving strangely. Everyone is walking around her nervously. All except for Mum and Noah. Mum keeps shooting her knowing mother look at her and Noah seems to find the whole thing amusing. Honestly she's lucky to have snagged him, not that I don't love Kit, but she's a handful and frankly it's a credit to Noah that he can handle her. His the only boy that hasn't run away. I'll never forget when Kit was in the 7th grade and Tommy Tompkins had a huge crush on her, according to Robbie he was always following her around wanting to carry her books and it was driving Kit crazy, after all she was strong enough to carry her own books. It only took 3 days for Kit's temper to rise and she had him pinned up against the brick wall behind the canteen promising him that if he didn't leave her alone she would tear him apart piece by piece. The poor guy wet himself and it was the talk of the school for the next 3 months till Tommy moved away.

Matilda's mobile beeped and the dairy flew to the floor. She got up. She had one new message. From Dalby.

Can you meet me behind the caravan park?

Matilda looked down at her watch. It was a quarter to nine. Curfew would be up in 15 minutes. Sensing some sort of urgency from the message she replied letting him know she would meet him then unlatched her window, turned off her light and climbed out of the window.

TBC

Coming up in the next chapter: Kit makes a shock discovery and Matilda finds out. Ric considers leaving the Bay.