Summer Love by Kitty Wilson

Author:Kitty Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2021-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-five

Jenny was right; the fayre was drawing to a close with cakes and plants sold out early on and everyone packing up ready to come together for the raffle draw that took place in the school hall at the very end of the evening. With the space hoppers let down and the ponies securely tied up, Kam and Pippa walked to the hall to see how their mothers had got on.

Kam stood by his remark about his mum and Jan having an awful lot in common. It would be nice if she had made a friend down here as it would make future visits much easier. He just worried a bit that they could team up and take their meddling to even higher levels.

It had been great to see so many of the children wandering around the school with intricate henna tattoos on their arms; his sisters had obviously done a roaring trade and, as Pippa had pointed out, it was a whole brand-new thing for the Penmenna School Fayre. The parents would be over the moon to offer something to their offspring that didn’t involve scrubbing green or red face paint off for the next three days.

Kam and Pippa made it through the packed school hall just in time to hear Marion tap the microphone as she stood on the small stage built out of wooden blocks kept specially for the purpose in the resources’ cupboard.

‘Hello, everybody, thank you once again for coming and making Penmenna’s May Fayre extra special. Every year we seem to pull it out of the bag and make it spectacular, and what can I say? Penmenna, you’ve done it again.’ She held her hands high and to the side and clapped them, waiting for the others to follow in obedient applause. Which obviously they all did.

Pippa stood at the back of the hall, next to Kam, in some kind of mother sandwich. Both women stood either side of their offspring and had bonded far too well for Kam’s taste. He was having trouble enough reining in his crush on Pippa this evening, and now he was pressed up against her in this crowd. The last thing he needed was his mother deciding that she wanted to be friends with the Parkin family and making everything else even more complicated.

She had pulled him away from the school Year Six camp when he was eleven because she didn’t think the facilities were clean enough; when she had discovered from Ben – three samosas and he was her number one source – that Kam was taking a girl to the cinema she had turned up and sat behind them the whole time, giving advice: ‘Kam, you need to offer her a drink. Kam, she has run out of popcorn. Kam, check she is alright. This is a very scary film. You should have chosen a nice romantic drama, Kam!’ He dreaded to think what she could do when she discovered Jan was equally desperate to get Pippa settled.

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