Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson

Author:Jacqueline Wilson [Wilson, Jacqueline]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
Publisher: RHCP Digital
Published: 2008-09-03T14:00:00+00:00

Mum and Jake were at home, sitting at either end of their new sofa bed. Mum’s eyes were red and puffy. She pressed her lips together, like she was scared she was going to start crying again. Jake kept looking anxiously at her. His eyes were red too. He hadn’t been crying, had he?

Mum looked at us. ‘What are you staring at me like that for?’ she said.

Jake reached out and tried to take her hand. ‘Tell them!’ he said.

Mum snatched her hand away. ‘Shut up!’ she said.

‘Tell us what?’ I said, getting really scared.

‘We know anyway!’ said Kendall.

‘What do you know?’ said Mum, looking startled.

‘You’re going to have a baby!’ said Kendall.

Mum gave one high-pitched yelp of laughter. ‘No I’m not.’

‘Yes you are, Lola Rose said.’

‘Well Lola Rose doesn’t know what she’s talking about,’ said Mum, folding her arms and glaring at me.

My new baby withered away inside its flowery dungarees until it was just a little purple smear.

‘So what is it then? Are you and Jake splitting up?’

‘I wouldn’t be surprised,’ said Mum.

‘No, we’re not!’ said Jake – but he didn’t sound certain.

‘Dad hasn’t found us, has he?’ I whispered. I looked wildly round the room, scared he was hiding, waiting to pounce.

‘It’s not your dad. It’s not anything,’ said Mum. She got up to fill the kettle, switching the tap on so fiercely she sprayed herself with water. ‘Bum! I’m having a cup of tea. Who wants one?’

‘Your mum’s got a lump,’ said Jake.

He mumbled it so I wasn’t quite sure what he’d said. And then when the words echoed in my head they still didn’t make any sense. A lump? I looked at Mum, trying to see this lump on her head, her arm, wherever.

‘I told you to shut it, Jake,’ Mum said furiously. ‘The kids don’t need to know.’

‘They’ll have to know if you’re going into hospital.’

‘I’m. Not. Going. Into. Hospital,’ said Mum, dabbing her wet front violently with the tea towel.

‘The doctor said—’

‘Yeah, well, he was probably just talking rubbish to scare me. I’m fine, I keep telling you. Do I look ill? There’s nothing wrong with me. And I’m not going into hospital so they can slice bits off me.’ Mum stopped jabbing her chest and wrapped her arms round herself.

‘Mum? What lump?’ I went to her and tried to cuddle her but she pulled away from me.

‘It’s nothing nothing nothing,’ she said fiercely.

It was something something something.

She’d had a lump in her breast for months and months. A lump that was getting bigger and bigger. She’d kept quiet about it, hoping it would clear up by itself. Then Jake felt it and said she should go to the doctor. We didn’t have a doctor here so Jake dragged her to his.

‘He says your mum needs to go to this clinic as soon as possible. He’s getting her an emergency appointment.’

‘Yeah, well, he can stick his emergency appointment because I’m not going. I’m not having some creep feeling me up and telling me I need my boob chopped off.

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