Losing It by Lesley Glaister

Author:Lesley Glaister [Glaister, Lesley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Reference, English as a Second Language
ISBN: 9781905207176
Amazon: B00724K8Y0
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Published: 2015-03-09T21:16:24.524000+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

In the morning Luke is round to wake them up. Marion gets out of bed to let him in. She’s still half asleep. He gives her a tight hug.

‘I’m glad you’re back,’ he says. ‘Mum was cross while you were away.’

‘I’m glad I’m back too,’ she says.

She puts the kettle on.

‘You looked after Tigger very well,’ she says. ‘Thank you.’

Marion gives Luke a stick of rock and a book about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. He sits at the table and sucks the rock while he looks at the pictures.

‘Mum was like a hero,’ he says. He’s all pink round his mouth from the rock.

‘Yes,’ Marion says. ‘I will say thank you to her.’

Later Marion rings the police and describes the jewellery that has been stolen.

‘Do you think I’ll get it back?’ she asks.

‘Doubt it, darling,’ the policewoman says.

Marion puts on her rubber gloves and scrubs away the fingerprint powder. She puts all her clothes in the washing machine. She rings up and orders a burglar alarm.

‘Just been burgled?’ asks the man.

‘Yes,’ she says.

He sighs. ‘Shutting the door after the horse has bolted,’ he says. ‘Everyone does that.’

Jo comes round for Luke.

‘We have to go shopping for shoes,’ she says. ‘School on Monday.’

‘I’m glad you disturbed the burglars,’ Marion says. ‘They would have taken more. Thank you.’

‘It’s nothing,’ Jo says.

‘Time for a coffee?’

‘Where’s David?’ Jo says.

‘Why?’

‘Doesn’t matter.’

‘He’s gone to the garden centre to buy a new fence,’ Marion says. ‘Do you want a coffee?’

‘OK.’ Jo sits down.

She’s more tanned than Marion, even though Marion’s the one who’s been on holiday.

‘Been on a sunbed?’ Marion says.

‘No,’ Jo says. ‘I just tan easily.’ She’s dyed her hair an even brighter red and is wearing too much lipstick.

Marion puts the coffee on the table. She shuts the door to the other room where Luke’s watching TV.

‘What were you doing here last night?’ she says.

‘Nothing.’

‘It was late,’ Marion says.

‘We didn’t expect you,’ Jo says.

‘We?’

There’s a long silence.

‘We?’ Marion says again. Her hands are shaking.

‘If you must know, David asked me round,’ Jo says.

Marion sits down.

‘Why?’ she says.

‘How should I know?’ Jo says.

‘He’s my husband,’ Marion says quietly.

‘I know,’ Jo says. ‘That’s what I told him.’

‘What?’

‘Nothing.’ Jo stood up. ‘Luke,’ she calls. ‘Time to go.’

Luke comes through.

‘Bye Marion,’ he says. He hugs her round her waist. He’s all sticky from the rock. ‘Can I come back later?’

‘We’ll see,’ Marion says.

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