Call Me Sister by Yeadon Jane

Author:Yeadon, Jane
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781845027346
Publisher: Black & White Publishing
Published: 2013-10-06T16:00:00+00:00

‘We couldn’t help noticing the ambulance at Miss Forbes’s house.’ Mrs Munro, dishtowel in hand, met me at the car. Her eyes, alive with concern and curiosity, suddenly took in LBP. Her face lit up.

‘What a cute wee doggie,’ she cried. ‘You didn’t say you had one.’

‘Mind your manners, LBP,’ I urged, worried that Mrs Munro’s twiddling fingers reaching through the small space left at the top of the car window might get bitten off. I got out of the car.

LBP showed the whites of her eyes then bent her head as if in despair. Already her foetid breath was misting the car windscreen. I shouldn’t have had porridge for breakfast. I could feel it turning in my stomach.

‘Och, Nurse, is that a rubber band she’s got in her hair?’ Mrs Munro scolded. ‘The poor wee thing’ll no like that. Could we take her in to see Himself, d’you think? He loves dogs – is always on about having one, and to tell you the truth,’ she dropped her voice and looked around as if the whole of Muir of Ord could hear, ‘I think she might be the very one to brighten him up. Th ought I’d catch you and mention it before you go in. Maybe it’s the diabetes and maybe it’s being retired with little to do, but he gets down particularly at this time of year.’

‘He’ll want to run a mile from this one,’ I pulled a face. ‘She’s a smelly wee warrior and needs a bath and a visit to the hair dresser and she’ll make your house smell like the glue works.’

Mrs Munro had the brightening look of someone on a happy-making mission. ‘D’you think that living in a croft was nothing but fresh air? Come on! I’m dying to take her in.’ Already she’d opened the car door and with only a cursory glance in my direction, lifted out LBP before I could scream, ‘She might bite!’

But all LBP did was wag a tail I’d only ever seen tucked between her legs. She gazed trustingly up at Mrs Munro, who tucked her under arm and patted her head. This met with LBP’s full approval.

‘Rubber band! What’s the nurse thinking of?’ There was real rebuke in Mrs Munro’s voice as she headed back into the house. LBP cocked her ears and looked as if this was the first time since last night she’d heard anything sensible.

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