Note: Italics are direct thoughts. The speech and narrator parts are in normal writing
As usual the house on a Tuesday morning is completely muddled. Charlie has to go to school, and mum works near Charlie's school, so she takes him. My dad takes me and Lily to places on Tuesdays because he doesn't work then. Like last week when we went to the park and my daddy bought me and Lily a strawberry ice-cream cone. But no one can take me anywhere today, because Daddy and Lily went away somewhere together without me.
I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be doing today, until Uncle Tommy got up… after everyone had left. I told him that he better make it up to me for getting up late, or else. I don't think he wanted to find out what the or else was, so he let me have whatever I wanted for breakfast. I chose a mixture of Coco Pops and Fruit Loops with Strawberry Milk. My mum never lets me have anything like that for breakfast, so I threw in a couple of chocolate chunk cookies for good measure. I sat down with Uncle Tommy, who had his own bowl of Coco Pops to watch Television.
Normally I would watch cartoons, but I decided that watching music videos would be funner. So we sat and watched
"Hey Luce" Tommy asked in a quiet tone
"Yeah?" I asked, noisily eating my sugary breakfast
He looked as if he was going to say something but stopped and paused while I slurped up my strawberry milk.
Just then White Lines came on.
"Oooooooooooooooo, yay, White Lines" I squealed
Uncle Tommy looked very surprised.
"You like Jude Harrison" he managed to finally choke out.
I just looked at him
"Everyone loves Jude Harrison, she's…Jude Harrison" But I had the feeling that no matter how many times I tried to explain it to him he wasn't going to get it.
"Hmph" I sighed as he looked at me with a blank expression.
"How about we get you ready for your day out, the Zoo is always nice in this weather" Uncle Tommy clearly is on my brother's side when it comes to music, but worse. Doesn't even like talking about Jude Harrison. I decided to give up and let him change the topic, even though he clearly needed some more knowledge about Rock Star Jude Harrison.
"I love the Zoo, especially the duckies." I replied. The education about Jude Harrison can come later. I wanted to see if Albert was still there.
At the Zoo (1 hour Later)
I Love the Zoo, its so fun, I cant wait to get inside. Oh my god, who is that weird freaky blonde woman running towards us. If she doesn't shut her mouth and stop screaming I swear flies with fly in. It's true dad told me once, and he said someone swallowed a fly once. I think she must be scared of the Lions. I'm not.
"AreYouLittleTommyQ?" she sys waay too fast
Uncle Tommy looked kinda strange; he just stood there not even bothering to answer. But it's kinda strange that she called him Little Tommy Q.
"Oh My God, I knew it was you, I so totally knew from when I saw you park your car" The blonde said with no intention of slowing down "Katie I told you it was him, Come here" The blonde was motioning over to a short brunette standing next to a really big tree. Her friend instantly looked away, embarrassed, but then slowly walked over after a lot more coaxing from her friend.
"Can you sign something, can you please, Oh Oh, I know my hat, can you sign it, Please Please Please"
"Uh" Uncle Tommy looked strange again, kinda awkward and embarrassed
"Are you going to the Zoo as well, Katie and I are. You should so totally come with us. I come here all the time. I'll show you everything, The Birds, Alligator, Lions…."
So She wasn't afraid of the Lions
"Well actually-" Uncle Tommy made my presence known
"Ohhhh how cute. Always looking out for the less fortunate children I see"
"Well actually-"
"Was her last wish to see the zoo with Little Tommy Q"
Uncle Tommy just looked at her
"Oh, well, I mean-" The blone lady knew she had made a mistake with that single glare Tommy gave her
" Actually" I started " My name is Lucette, Uncle Tommy is my Uncle."
The woman just stood there with her mouth open.
Thankfully that gave us enough time to sneak around her and into the Zoo
Back At Home
"And then Albert looked around and realised that he couldn't see any of his family"
"Ohh, but he has to find them he has to.
I was staring at the book because it told us to keep our eyes open. I have a theory that if you close them then you might not find him. I would test it out, but if I did I would never find him….
"And then they all lived happily ever after" finished Uncle Tommy
I smiled happily. I love that book; it changes every time I read it.
I snuggled under the covers and fell asleep, with happy dreams about Lily and me eating strawberry ice cream cones all day.
