A Summer Of Songs.

chapter 16

“thank you nanny Kiri that was delish” I said putting my knife and fork down “can me and blaze go out onto deck?”

Blaze looked at me “I want 4ths” he whined

“if I would have known you would eat that much I would have made more but there’s none left right now, you go out on deck with our hope” said nanny kiri. Blaze and I got up and blaze headed for the front door he had come in.

“wait” I said grabbing his hand “seeing silver out on your roof gave me the  idea to get onto our and it works and it’s a quicker way onto the deck” I pulled him to my steps and we went up to my bed room.

“hope. Where are you going with that boy?” destiny appeared at the bottom of my stairs as we were just getting to the top

“none of your business des”

“ill tell on you” she pouted

“ohh who was that I saw sneaking to their room with a huge bar of galaxy?” I said innocently

“a boy is different to galaxy” she with her usual witty comebacks

“who galaxy was it though? At least the boy is mine” I said smiling at the thought that Blaze was mine

“oh i'm yours now” he said pushing me back wards I fell on the bed. He was leaning over me his warm breath on my face.

“yeah all mine” I laughed putting my arms around his neck and I rested my forehead on his and looked right into his eyes.

“your eyes are becoming one” he said blinking

I threw my head back and laughed.

“I’ll get you Hope Greene” Destiny called up my stairs

“Everyone seems to be saying that” said Blaze sitting next to me on my bed looking up at the stars through my little window.

“come on” I said opening the window and pulling myself out, blaze followed me out. And we sat on the roof of our little house boat quietly bobbing on the calm waters.

“tell me” said blaze suddenly sitting back leaning on his arms the moon light making his dark black hair shine and his deep green eyes twinkle, as he grinned at me.

“tell you what?” I asked confused

“about you, your family, why live with your nans” said blaze looking up at the night sky.

“oh erm”

“if you don’t want to you don’t have to” blaze said taking my hand

“no its fine, okay well, I don know anything about my dad except his name is Danny and he disappeared, the day destiny was born,  but mum didn’t want him anywhere near us anyway. He used to hit Faith and mum and Faith can remember him better than me I was only 3 so don’t remember much whereas Faith was 6, I never know if this is a good or bad thing, I cant remember him but Faith hates him. I don’t remember mum much either only that her hugs smelt like lavender and we have photos of her, she died when I was 5 and faith was 8 and destiny was 2, she had a terminal illness me and faith remember it most, I remember having to watch her slowly fade away until it was almost like she was nothing when a teacher noticed she wasn’t dropping us off much and Faith was looking after us, the teacher raised the case and someone came round and took mum into hospital. When mum was in hospital and we had no dad we went from children’s home to children’s home never really fitting in and Faith refused to leave me and Destiny, we were all we had left, we had never even met nanny kiri and nanny dru. Then someone found them year later and we all moved into the squeaky cow. And here we are now” I said with a smile as the memories came flooding back. Sitting with little destiny and faith telling us both about dad. Watching mum get thinner and paler. I alwasy knew she was going. Faith looking after us.  At mums funeral not really know what was happening. Being taken to different care homes to see if anyone wanted 3 sisters. Faith telling us to just smile so that we would get looked after. Meeting nanny kiri and her hugging us and faith bursting into tears. Moving into the squeaky cow. “what about your dad?”

“hes in prison”

“what? What for?” I asked shocked

“nothing major and it wasn’t him, he was wrongly blamed”

“what for though Blaze”

“theft” he said bluntly I got the feeling that was all I was going to get out of him