Making Waves by Annie Dalton

Author:Annie Dalton [Dalton, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lazy Chair Press
Published: 2013-06-20T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Lola sat on the edge of the bed clutching her raggedy bag full of smelly poisonous plants. She was shivering. She just went on sitting there shivering and staring emptily into space. After a while the bag slipped to the floor but she didn’t seem to notice.

Two tiny lizards, no bigger than children’s hairgrips, unglued themselves from the walls and skittered over to look at her. Then they turned their bulging little eyes on me, almost like they were waiting for me to do something. But I just stood in the middle of the room, feeling completely useless.

What can you say to a runaway slave-girl when the one white person she trusted abandons her without a word?

I was sick with disappointment myself. I had put myself through the wringer to help Brice. Well, that jerk had just thrown away his last chance. And let’s face it, he had had the MOST last chances.

No more sympathy for you, mister, I thought grimly. You have blown it, totally.

Though getting mad with Brice was quite therapeutic, it didn’t actually solve anything unfortunately. In addition to her cosmic amnesia, my soul-mate was now utterly traumatised. To cap it all, we were stranded in Port Royal with absolutely no cash.

You’re out of your depth with this one, Melanie, I thought miserably. Michael offers to send in a SWAT team, but oh no. You have to know best.

The teeny lizards had skittered up one of the mildewed bed curtains. They clung there side by side, watching me and Lola with their beady bright eyes.

I was so upset, I think I went a bit mad. I started talking to the lizards in my head.

“Got any ideas?” I asked them miserably. “I’m not proud, you know. All suggestions gratefully received, believe me.”

An ugly little bug flew past. Lizard Number One shot out its tongue and - bosh! - the bug was gone. Lizard Number Two went pattering down the curtain and across the floor. I thought it was hunting for an ugly bug of its own, but it kept pattering along until it reached my clothes. I’d dropped them in a heap the night before.

The lizard zoomed up the heap until it reached the top where it suddenly froze. You could almost hear it saying, “Ta-da!”

When I saw what the lizard was standing on, I almost screamed. Can you believe I’d forgotten that little seventeenth century coin purse?! A purse FULL of jewellery, if you remember!

Everything’s going to be OK! I thought deliriously.

Don’t get me wrong. Jewels wouldn’t mend Lola’s broken heart. It wasn’t the jewels that were making me so excited.

It was the reminder that I wasn’t completely alone. I’d forgotten that really crucial heavenly messages always, always get through - via a lizard if necessary!

Of course, now that I’d remembered I was an angel, I was able to see my situation in a different way.

I felt a rush of shame as I realised I’d been doing exactly what angels are not supposed to do. I had judged Brice without knowing the facts.

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