We arrived at Lily´s, her dad wasn´t at home. So we went straight to a cupboard and Lily lifted out a box. Then we walked over to Lily´s room, and she placed the box on her bed, and opened it.
"Let´s see then." She turned the box upside down, and poured all the clothes in it out on her bed, some of them, ended up on the floor. Carmen and Tee started digging in the clothes.
"Try this hoodie," Tee threw me a black- grey cardigan with a pattern of purple roses.
"With these trousers," Carmen threw me a pair of purple jeans.
"And this T-shirt," Lily gave me a purple and white T-shirt.
"Where´s the bathroom?" I asked.
"Oh, don´t mind about that," Lily answered. "You can change clothes in here, dad´s not home so the only ones that´ll se you is me, Carmen and Tee."
"Ok," I sighed. "But then I want you to close your eyes, while I change T-shirt," I pulled my own hoodie over my head, and threw it at the floor, the same with my own pair of trousers and my T-shirt.
"Sophia?" Tee asked with her eyes still closed.
"Mhm," I answered while I pulled the jeans on.
"How old are you actually?"
"Thirteen, why?"
"I was just wondering…"
"You were wondering, if I´m just younger than I look like, or short for my age," I smiled, and pulled the T-shirt on, Tee blushed. "You´re not the first one wondering, my length makes me look like, eleven or something. You can open your eyes now." The girls opened their eyes and looked at me.
"Those clothes looks really good on you." Carmen said. "What do you think?"
"I like them." I answered. "They´re comfortable."
"Then they´re yours." Lily started digging in the bunch of clothes again, and she pulled out a long, grey, knitted cardigan. "Try this too." This kept on for a while, I changed clothes what felt like, one hundred and eleven times, but were probably just about eight. And every time I changed T-shirt, I told the girls to close their eyes. I didn´t want them to see, and ask about the plaster, on the side of my stomach. I didn´t want to talk about it, didn´t wanna think about it, I just wished I could forget it all about that day.
Then something went completely wrong. We had left the door to Lily´s room, just a little bit open. And we could hear Lily´s dad come home.
"Hiya dad." Lily shouted, with her eyes closed
"Hi Lily I didn´t thought you would come home so ear…ly." The door opened, exactly as I had pulled a T- shirt over my head, I turned my back against the door, but the girls had looked up when Lily´s dad came into the room, as quickly as I could I tried to unfold the T- shirt in my hands, and I pulled it over my head.
"Sophia," Carmen began. "What happened to your stomach, you have a big plaster there?"
"Oh, have I?" I said ironic. "I didn´t know that."
"Dad," Lily began. "This is Sophia, she arrived at Elm Tree House this morning, I thought she could have some of my old clothes, because she doesn´t have more than one change of clothes herself."
"yeah that´s fine, I´m Steve Kettle by the way, Lily´s dad."
"Sophia Atkins," I mumbled.
"Just keep on what you did before I came in," Steve closed the door and left.
"What happened to your stomach?" Carmen asked again.
"I don´t want to talk about it." I pulled the T- shirt over my head, and threw it back in the box. "Is there something else I can try on?"
"I don´t think so," Lily said. I started convoluting the clothes, putting the clothes, I didn´t want, back in the box, and the clothes I wanted in a rucksack, Lily had gotten. I pulled on the purple jeans and the long, grey knitted cardigan. I lifted my own clothes up from the floor. No, I wasn´t going to throw them in the bin, not just yet.