'Toots,' Ellie says after a minute 'read the letter. Please, I want to know what it says.'
I go to say no, but then temptation got the better of me. Secretly, I wanted to know what kind of rubbish he had to say.
Dear all
As you have probably gathered, I have left. The last week has been great and I have enjoyed every minute of it. I hope you have enjoyed it too.
But now I feel I am no longer wanted, out stayed my welcome, as they say. One day will see you again and I hope then we can be a proper family. But for now it is good-bye.
'I really will miss him. He was really nice, why did he have to leave. He was still welcome.' I hear Ellie say but I'm not really listening. She's young. She doesn't understand quite yet. She has no idea what's happened.
I'm lost in thought, translating the letter, looking for the real meaning.
The last week has been great and I've enjoyed every minute of it = The week has been great; I had somewhere to stay and someone giving me money.
I hope you have enjoyed it too = I had you all fooled
But now I feel I am no longer wanted = I got caught out
One day will see you again = I'll be back when I don't have a house and need money
But for now it is good-bye = But now I should really leave.
It reminded me of school when teacher is going on about hidden meanings in texts, asking us to explain what quotes from Shakespeare's plays really mean and why he gave it a hidden meaning. It sometimes seems pointless but can come in useful.
Life would go back to normal now. Dad was gone, Mum would go back to work, and I would be taking Ellie to school again. It feels like ages since we first came home to find Dad there, but really it's only a week.
Dad will be back for sure, but for now everything will go back to the way it was. We're going to the touristy part of town at school where we will have to wave, sign autographs and stand for hours and hours. Then it will be back to school, there'll be fights, rough games of football and more chaos. Like I said at the beginning, as normal as you get at Bash Street.
Mum doesn't know yet why Dad 'wasn't welcome'. She doesn't know why Sid shouted at Dad yesterday or why I hated him so much. Maybe one day we'll tell her. Or perhaps it will just be another secret…
Please review on the ending, I wasn't sure how to finish it. Thanks for reading:)