Chapter 8
This is my last chapter guys, before the epilogue! So I will make as long and interesting as I can- even though you know I do not do long chapters! Thank you to all of my reviewers I love you all!
Rebecca's thoughts:
A strange old man stood over me and rinsed out my cheek. While he did this I scrutinised his face. It was creased with the effort of trying to clean my gash as gingerly as possible. I knew from his look of horror and consternation when he meet daddy and me that he was perplexed at our conditions. I did not know where we were, all I knew was that I was very hungry. I moaned gently and daddy came running over, he wiped my cheek before asking if he could have some milk.
The old mans paternal side was revealed and he immediately went to sterilize some milk. When he came back he placed me in the crook of his arm, which was extremely comfortable, and placed the teat into my mouth. The fresh milk oozed into my mouth and I drank thirstily, accidentally squealing with pleasure.
Williams P/O/V (point of view)
My adorable sister fell asleep and for many moments we sat in silence.
"I 'ad a son once, he woz lovely he was." He exclaimed. I plucked up the courage and spoke, knowing that I looked a lot calmer than I felt:
"What happened?" I asked.
"He died, with his mother," he said bitterly his voice barely audible.
"I am so sorry, I never knew." I felt so stupid how could I have been such an imbecile? Now he would be really angry.
The man walked over to the fireplace in the right hand side of the wall and prodded it with the coal poker. I knew what was coming now, the poker had turned a glowing orange colour and he brought it slightly closer to his face. All of a sudden his features began to swim more vigorously and I felt my knees weaken. The last thing I saw was the old man stagger towards me clutching the red hot poker.
When I woke up I was wrapped in many blankets in an armchair as soft as marshmallows. The strange old man came towards me and said:
"Call me Mr. Aishwarya Tom," I agreed to weakly.
"You surely did not think I was going to…" he hesitated.
"Did you think I was going to hit you?"
I felt bewildered, " yes of course, what else?"
The Tom massaged his temples, "I would never, ever do that to a child," he exclaimed looking hurt. Then he continued:
"You fainted, then went to sleep for a long time, while you were asleep I phoned the authorities; I …"
I screamed at this point, the sound puncturing the mumbling of Tom. "Noooooooooooo, no, no, no, no! Please do not give us away, we have no home, no food and no money." By this time I had collapsed on the floor and was crying hysterically.
Understanding dawned on the old mans face. "I was thinking rather the opposite meself! I was gonna say to live with me! I remember a trick or two from when my sonnie was a little lad."
Just then Rebecca woke up, almost as if she understood she began to yelp breathlessly and enthusiastically. I jumped up and swooped her up in my arms dancing madly around the room. The poor thing having a weird brother that woke them up to dance! But to my greatest astonishment she began to giggle!
A few months later…"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to RRRRRRrrrebecca happy birthday to you!" Tom and I chorused, laughing at Rebecca's shocked face. She gazed pensively at her winnie the pooh cake, and tried to no avail to blow out the candles. Her breaths escaped her in short wispy sounding gasps.
Eventually I blew them out, then I took her to open her presents, she dribbled over the flamboyant wrapping paper and clapped her hands after seeing each present.
Then she grasped my hands unexpectedly and pulled with quite a lot of force considering her size; somehow she managed to rise. I stood there awestruck while she took her first shaky step. My baby! "What a clever girl," I spoke. I was so proud; as she turned to look at me grinning cheekily she fell straight onto a cushion. Luckily I was perched precariously on the end of my armchair so was able to grab her before any harm was done!
Later on that evening, I put her to bed in her new state of the art cot and she said. "abbbbyeee dada." Tears filled my eyes and I knew that my little girl was growing up!
The end!
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