Lily in the Mirror by Paula Hayes

Author:Paula Hayes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Published: 2016-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

It is later on in the day. I have not seen Nimmy or Other Lily.

So GG was on the phone and Linden made some figgy toast for himself and then ate it in his room with his earplugs in like the surly little pudding head that he is. I pulled out the key and opened the door to the Rosy Room … and the dust cloth was jiggling and jiving all over the place. OL was super excited and I wanted to say ‘calm your farm or we will get busted’ but I didn’t have the heart. I let her have a nanosecond of joy before my bad news. The news could have thrown her into the depths of anguish for all eternity. Heavy!

So I took my time pulling off the sheet to reveal her beautiful eyes glistening with happiness and she was doing that chuckle thing which is no longer annoying but simply delightful. (FAVE NEW OL WORD OF ALL TIME!)

‘How did it go?’ she whisper-shouted joyously — and as I write this I am struck by how much fun a really good prop can be and I almost, almost understand Linden’s rubber-vomit stage.

‘It went very well,’ I replied with as much joy as I could muster but she could tell it didn’t match her joy at all as she is incredibly good at reading things like people’s faces and voices. It’s probably because she has been stuck in a mirror since 1947.

‘What’s the matter, dear one?’ she asked very gently but firmly. ‘Has Linden been mean to you?’

And I said, ‘No, we totally nailed freaking Linden out. It’s Nimmy … Lucy … she is going downhill … I just heard GG slash Colin say on the phone that she only has a few days left,’ and then to make it perfectly clear, I added, ‘left alive.’ Then I blubbed like a baby again but Lily did not.

She leaned forward and said, ‘Can I ask you a favour, dearest?’

I said, ‘Yes, anything, anything at all!’ but I was actually thinking, what can I do for a girl inside a mirror?

‘I must see my dear one, one more time. Please, do you think you could organise it?’

And I’m like, yeah sure, I will just put the mirror in my Hello Kitty organiser and off we go. Of course I didn’t say that. I did say, ‘I can’t promise anything but I will die trying,’ and this seemed to give her confidence in me.

Then I heard Linden rabbiting around (GG-ism) in the kitchen for chips and biscuits so I said I must go. As I placed the sheet over the mirror, OL started to cry and she almost touched the glass.

‘Stop!’ I shouted — and she did. Big silent tears plopped down her face and I was completely gutted.

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