Mountains of the Moon by I. J. Kay

Author:I. J. Kay
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781101583722
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2012-07-04T21:00:00+00:00

Housemistress Julie is on duty tonight. Mr. Jim is with her, lucky he int my friend no more. Noise is worster than hell on earth, that’s what Miss Julie reckons. Boys don’t want to go to bed, bashing and shouting til they get locked in. Then they yell out through the spyholes a game called Who’s a Twat, and anybody can join in. They gave me this room now cos mine int no good. Toby is next door. Crying gain. Sounds like stuck.

“I want my mum I want my mum I want my mum.”

Makes me cry cos I don’t want mine. I wonders who to cry. Can’t think of no one so I has to stop. I got stiff and ouch and everything swelled up.

“Catherine?” Miss Julie says. “Do you need anything before I lock? Did you have paracetamol, for the pain?”

I don’t say nothing. I hear her shoes come in and breathing looking down at me. She makes the blanket over my shoulder, tucks it around my neck. Her warm hand presses on mine and she kisses my ear, don’t know how come. The lamp button clicks off. I peek. She reaches tween the bars to pull the top winder shut. Then I see her black shape in the corridor light starting to close the door.

“Miss Julie?” I got a slippery voice, sounds int proper mine.

She stops closing the door and comes back in. Her face is a little bit kind.

“Will they hang me?” I arsts.

She comes down by my bed.

“No, love,” she says. “They don’t hang people any more, especially not little girls.”

“Will I have to go to prison?”

“Not prison. You might stay here. I don’t know, love, maybe for a very long time, until you’ve grown up. You can’t go to prison until you’re eighteen. You should try and make the best of it, Catherine.”

I slow nods my head.

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