Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Mad House by Martha Long

Author:Martha Long [Martha Long]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Published: 2011-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

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I was sitting on my bed, yawning and wondering if I should climb in and have a sleep, when the ‘Vision’ appeared in the room and stood looking at me.

‘I would like to give Katie her medication,’ he said in a wonderfully singsong, musical, manly, deep baritone voice. I stared, listening with my mouth open. ‘Please! You will help me?’

He held a glass of water gracefully away from him, and his open palm held tablets. Mabel was missing. That just leaves me and him and the bold recalcitrant Katie! I was out of the bed in a flash, trailing behind him, watching his arse slide from side to side and his long golden hair flick from the side down over his right eye. He glided into the room, with me puffing in behind him, all excited.

Katie was lying on the bed, nursing her bottle of vintage wine under her pillow, and grinned up at him, saying, ‘Forget the pills! Let’s get us a corkscrew and we’ll open this!’ and she whipped out the bottle.

The monk grinned, lighting up his whole face, and the room, and me! I was alive again! Energy started hurtling through my veins, reminding me what life was really all about.

‘Katie! Katie! You must! Take this! For your baby and of courrse your husband!’ He held out his hand with the medication and said, ‘I beg you! Pleassse!’

I couldn’t bear to see him struggling with the bold Katie, and I was mad jealous it wasn’t me he was begging!

‘Come on, Katie! Sit up!’ I said. ‘Give them to her! She’s going to take them. Sit up, ye messer!’ I said, laughing to Katie and dragging her up.

She took it no problem and winked at me, saying, ‘Marta, Marta! Why you no have to take de medication yourself? De lovely monk could then take care of you too! Ha, ha!’

‘You are naughty, Katie!’ he said, wagging his finger at her. ‘Why do you like to tease me?’

I nearly collapsed onto the bed, drinking in his wonderfully Russian handsome manliness. He turned, ignoring me, and wafted out the door, my eyes glued on his back.

‘God! You’ve got it bad!’ Katie laughed.

‘I can’t get over him. He’s so aloof, so distant, yet seems very in control, masterful!’ I gasped out, trying to steady my breathing.

‘Hmm! Nor can half of the women in this place,’ Katie snorted. ‘Martha! I’d be careful of that fellow!’ Katie suddenly said, looking ominously at me.

‘Why?’ I burst out, feeling a sense of disappointment. ‘You don’t like him?’ I asked.

‘No! There’s something . . . I don’t know!’

I stared at her, trying to see what she sees. ‘Ah! You don’t like him because you have your own fella. And a lovely little baby and your . . .’ I didn’t finish telling her she had a doting mother and a father. ‘You are very secure, Katie! I suppose I would be too, if I was in your position. I certainly wouldn’t be wasting my

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