Fly Away by Patricia MacLachlan

Author:Patricia MacLachlan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

chapter 7

Waiting for the Flood

The rugs are all upstairs, lying in neat rolls in the wide hallway. We have moved up some of the furniture. “You should move upstairs too,” Mama says to Frankie.

“Not until I have to,” says Frankie.

I follow Frankie as she goes to the hallway and puts on her raincoat and hat. She smiles at me.

“If I sleep upstairs I won’t be able to hear Teddy sing to you,” she whispers to me.

She sees the look on my face and puts her arm around me.

“There is a vent in the floor in your room that goes to my room. Don’t worry. I can tell it is something between you and Teddy. A secret.”

She opens the door.

“Does he come to sing to you every night?”

I nod.

“And no one else?”

I nod again.

“It made me happy. It made me cry,” she says as she goes out the door to talk to the river.

The rain goes on.

I hope Teddy comes into my room again tonight.

I hope he sings for Frankie.

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