the boy with the blue shoes

part 33

me, my dad and cherry had had a little chat and we still weren't certain that we weren't moving to america but the odds were quite slim. unfortunately we still needed to find a place to live or we'd be kicked out of our house and have nowhere to live. i still couldn't get the weird interaction between me and justin out of my head. it was like they were hiding something. i'm going over today, maybe i can try find something.

i got dressed and went round to amanda's house, again she didn't answer but justin did. "ah max, you must be here to go get oliver" he said, i nodded. "well you know where the nursery is off you go" he said, i was a bit taken aback but then walked to oliver's nursery. i waited for about 5 minutes before oliver came rushing out. "and who are you" the teacher person asked. "i'm max, i'm a friend of the family" i smiled. "maxyyy" oliver wanted lifted up. i lifted him up and the teacher continued talking to me. "oliver, who is this man" she asked. "he's my brother" he smiled, hugging me. "i'm like a brother" i smiled at her. eventually she let me take oliver home, these things never used to be this strict. you used to be able to just walk right out with anyone who said they were your parents.

i was walking with oliver and i guess we were kinda just talking. "so oliver, what has been happening with you" i asked. he shrugged a little. "i don't know" he said in a little cute voice. "not a lot, daddy's just been stressed" i got a little concerned by that but i wanted to know more. we decided to take a little stop and we sat down, i wanted to dig further. "what has daddy been doing in work" i asked. oliver looked at his feet and shrugged. "i'm not sure, he hasn't told mummy or me or nomy" it was cute how he couldn't say naomi. "is daddy ever not stressed" oliver nodded. "yes mostly once everything over" i was very confused. "once what's over" i asked, a little more concerned. "well first him and mummy go up the stairs, i don't know what happens but daddy sounds like he's having fun, i think it might be a princess game" i was still very curious about this, and even more confused. "why do you think it was a princess game" i asked him. "because mummy is always yelling like 'help me' 'please make this stop' and things like that"  my heart dropped to my stomach. i didn't want to believe it. i didn't want to hear it. justin was abusing amanda.

"what else does daddy do" i asked. as much as i really didn't want to know, i needed to know, for the sake of the kids and amanda. "i don't know" he shrugged. "what do you mean you don't know" i asked. "well i don't remember, he does something but then i don't remember anything else" oliver complained. "what does he do" i asked. "immmm not supposed to say" oliver said hoping down from the bench. "but i promise i wont tell anyone" i said to him. "i don't knowwww" he shrugged again. "come on, you can trust me" i smiled at him. "fine but i have to whisper it" he said, he came up to my ear.

i broke down when i heard what he said, i couldn't believe i had lived with that man for months, i was utterly disgusted.