Too much love will kill you

Chapter 35

Faith's POV

Dad was driving me , Emma and Sophie back down to London as i had been released from hospital and i was allowed to go back to school now so i pushed back my covers and  jumped out of bed , first making sure i stretched as i needed to keep my joints supple for dancing  and pulled on my uniform and grabbed my dance kit and dance shoes and my night case as my trunk was already waiting at the bottom of the stairs for Dad to put in the car . I dressed quickly in my spring term uniform , a 3/4 length sleeve shirt with a brown pinafore to sit over the top with plain black tights and sensible black shoes as well as a brown hat with a black ribbon round it , i would keep this on until i got to school where i would change into my pink leotard with white tights and ballet flats that laced up my legs .

I ran out of the room and ran down the stairs and into the kitchen where i threw myself across Alicia's legs where she pulled me into her and kissed the top of my head and tickled my stomach making me double over with laughter"where's Mam lic ?" "I think she's with Grace she's had a bad night and Dad is out front loading your stuff up , now go get some breakfast shoo shoo " , i hugged her back and jumped across her throwing my arms around Ethan who jumped about a foot in the air before swinging me round and round in the air making my hat fly off and my pinafore twirl out . He put me down carefully being careful of the bruising to my back where i'd collapsed at school three weeks ago and i was glad to be going back to school after a boring two weeks in hospital and a week of rest at home , i smoothed down my pinafore giggling at Ethan who was pulling funny faces at Alicia who was moody with him because she couldn't wake him up in the night so she had to get up for the twins feeds , i ran and  pulled myself up on top of the breakfast bar using my skills from gymnastics , grabbed my hat which was precariously balanced on top of a shelf of books so i climbed up on the table and stood on my tippy toes reaching for it when i slipped on some spilt juice  cracking my elbow on the floor at the same time but on the bright side i got my hat back but i howled in pain and Ethan came running in and lifted me up to sit on the breakfast bar he carefully rolled up my sleeve and manipulated my elbow checking it , he was fairly sure it wasn't broken so he bandaged it up and put me in a sling from the first aid kit  sending me along to Alicia who cuddled me " You poor little duck , come here darling and give Lacey a cuddle whilst i feed Sadie will you but why were you on the breakfast bar in the first place, Miss Barrett is gonna kill you as she's losing her best dancer"

"I was trying to reach my hat but it hurts Lesh" I howled and sobbed into her chest making my already sore throat sore.

I carefully balanced Lacey in the crook of my good elbow and rubbed my nose against the soft blonde hairs sprouting from her little head . Dad came in and told me he was ready to go so i put Lacey down and went round the house saying goodbye to everyone before grabbing my dance bag slung it over my shoulder and grabbed my night case and scrambled in the car where Dad was waiting . We drove about four streets away from our house and stopped outside Emma's house who had refused to go back to school without me as did sophie , i climbed out the car and rung her doorbell with Uncle Johnny answering " Alright Chickie , Em's upstairs with Auntie Jac if you want to go up " 

I ran up the stairs into Emma's room where Auntie Jac was re hemming her tunic " What have you done to your arm Fay?" asked Auntie Jac 

"I slipped and fell whilst climbing on the breakfast bar to get my hat , Ethan span me round and it fell off onto the shelves , i sprained my elbow don't worry i just can't dance Em " 

"You idiot " Emma snorted softly so i whacked her round the head with a cushion .

Soon enough Auntie Jac had finished re hemming her pinafore and released her threatening that if she pulled the hems down one more time she'd make her re hem them herself . "Bye Auntie Jac i'll keep an eye on Em whilst we're at school " i shouted as we left the house arm in arm