Copper to Red by Ceri Bladen

Author:Ceri Bladen [Bladen, Ceri]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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ISBN: 1482722194
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

“Fancy a pint down the Red Lion with me and Dad?” Michael enquired, wondering what the answer would be, but the way Tom had been acting lately, he was expecting a negative in reply. Michael noticed that he hadn’t been to the local for a week now.

“No thanks, not tonight. I… I um…” Tom was trying to think of an excuse that might sound plausible. He would never admit to anyone that it hurt him to see Willow. Hell, he couldn’t even admit it to himself!

“Have to wash your hair?” Michael teased.

“Very funny! “

“Staying in to watch Coronation Street with Mam?” Michael carried on.

“Yeh, yeh.” Tom got up from the kitchen table to take his mug to the sink. “No, I’m trying to cut down on my drinking. I’ve been going to the Red Lion too much lately. I’m listening to Mam.”

“That’s a first!” came the reply from the larder. Meg was in there getting the jams out ready for breakfast tomorrow. After many arguments, Meg had accepted the gift of a fridge from Morgan and Ria, but she still preferred her old fashioned larder. She knew that Ria loved giving them presents, she could certainly afford them now since she had married into the Templeton family, but Meg still had a strong proud streak within her. She and Evan had struggled for money for most of their married life on his miner’s pay packet. But in her opinion, they had never gone without. Megan smiled, she knew Ria was only trying to help them as she loved them and the new carpet upstairs certainly looked lovely. She found the jam she was looking for and re-entered the kitchen. “Tom, I’ve noticed you haven’t been going out lately. Nothing wrong is there love?” A small frown joined the fine lines that had started forming on her forehead. Actually, now she thought of it, she was worried about her oldest boy. Tom had always gone through life with a smile on his face and a joke on his lips. He never seemed to get down about anything. Goodness, it had Tom who had been the solid rock when they had lost Johnny. Meg took an intake of breath to stop the tears that always threatened when she thought of Johnny. Tom had been devastated, like them all, but he had made it all right to laugh again, reminding them all how much Johnny loved laughter.

When Meg thought about it, she had never been overly worried about her eldest child. Tom got himself into problems at times, the worst being that fiasco when he didn’t tell Ria about Morgan’s phone calls. Everything always seemed to come all right in the end for him. Meg sighed, he was a good boy even then, he hadn’t told Ria about the phone calls as he thought Morgan had hurt her, so he was protecting her, or so he thought. No, something was up with him and being his mother, she would eventually get to the bottom of it!

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Meg watched the end credits of The Saint.

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