Rebecca's miracle

Five

Rebecca Pov

My first day of school went quite well, (even if I say so myself), and I could say that I had a couple of new friends, (which I didn't really have before), so I was quite happy with that, as I'm not that good at socialising with anyone that I don't know, (well not that I am fantastic at socialising with people I know, but I'm at least better at socialising with people I know, if that makes any sense to you).

I walked home, it wasn't that far, as school was literally across the road from Leo's house, (so I couldn't really get lost from school to the house, unless it was dark out, ya know), I walked to the front door and I heard a man's voice that I hadn't heard before, though it was kind of comforting as he had the same accent as my Dad, (no, I didn't say this out loud, I didn't really know these people yet).

"You're turning your mad house into an even madder house Lad?"
"Dad I'm only going from 2 kids to 3 kids, she also has nowhere else to go, plus I haven't heard her speak all that much since she's been here"
"Yeah well that could very well change when she's more comfortable here, you should know that Kiddo"
"Are you saying that from your experience with Aoife (Ee fa) Dad?"
"What else would I be taking it from?, the fucking stones?"
"Oh ha ha, very funny Dad"

That's when I decided to walk into the living room, as there wasn't much else that I could do unless I wanted it known that I heard their previous conversation, (which I did not want to do), so I tried to act casual, (but we both know that I wasn't the best at hiding things), I also spiritually crossed my fingers for the best, (I didn't attempt to actually cross my fingers as I genuinely think that it would've been blaringly obvious).

"Hey Leo"
"Hey how was school?"
"It was alright, I actually made some friends"
"I told you that you would"
"I'm not usually very good at peopling"
"I get that, oh, Dad this is Rebecca, Rebecca this is my Dad"
"Hi Mr Leo's Dad"
"Hi Darling, I like her, she's got better manners than you"
"And whose fault is that Dad?"
"Oh hush now"

Leo's Dad looked familiar to me, but I couldn't figure out why that was, (I'm shit at recognising people, so that didn't help me at all here), though maybe I was familiar enough to him too as the next thing to come out of his mouth was a question about where I came from, (though that is me surmising here, I have nothing entirely concrete here, so take that as you will).

"Where did ya live before coming to Manchester Lassie?"
"East end, Dad didn't want to live in any other part of London"
"He has business in The East End?"
"I guess that's what you'd call it, if we're going by the legal definitions, he's dead now though"
"You're one of Jack McCarthy's kids?"
"Yeah, how would you know about him?"
"He's my younger brother"
"Wait I thought your surname was Morrison"
"He's not the only one that reinvented himself in England"

Yeah I didn't know that any of Jack's other siblings came over from Ireland, (or that he even had siblings in the first place), but then again I didn't know much about Jack's life from before he changed his name, you could ask why I didn't question it much before, but considering how my Mother reacted to me asking her about the name Jack McCarthy, I wasn't exactly living somewhere that I could ask questions like that.

Anyway I went upstairs and did my homework, (the homework wasn't necessary hard but starting out in Catholic school did make it so I got homework out of the way so that it was done), I also couldn't tell you what the conversation was between Patsy and Leo after I went upstairs because I wasn't purposely hearing out for anything, (and even if I did attempt to listen out for anything, I wouldn't have gotten much as processing who said what from a whole floor up would've been more work than it was worth doing for me anyway).

The rest of the evening was fine, like nothing out of the ordinary happened, (well other than getting used to living somewhere else, but ya know, it wasn't all that eventful), it wasn't even all that eventful when I was staring at the ceiling, trying to fall asleep, (yeah I was not used to that level of calm if I'm being completely honest with you here, not that my got any better over the years).