The Girl Who Saw Lions by Berlie Doherty

Author:Berlie Doherty
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448189014
Publisher: Andersen Press Ltd

12

Rosa

SO MOLLY CAME back to see us. It was like Christmas all over again, I was so excited. I half expected her to bring my new sister with her, but she came on her own, with forms to fill and lots of questions to ask. She asked me if I was really sure about it this time, and I said, yes, yes, a hundred per cent yes, as soon as possible.

She came again a few days later and met Nana and Grandpa, who said they fully supported Mum and me in our decision to adopt, and that they would help us in every way. Grandpa wasn’t the slightest bit curmudgeonly that day, in fact I think the new word for him has to be jovial. He kept rubbing his hands together and saying he couldn’t wait for a new little scamp to come along, because I was getting too well-behaved and boring. He borrowed a video camera from one of his Art class friends and made a film of our house, all the rooms and the garden, and Mum and me doing things in the kitchen, so the new sister, as I called her, would be able to know all about us before she came. Mum told me to wear my normal, comfortable clothes, not my sparkly shoes, but I did clip a white flower on the side of each of my school shoes. Twitchy played a star part, mincing her way right up to the lens and purring into it. If cats could smile, she was beaming. I hope my new sister likes cats.

And then, we just had to wait. It was all I could think about. Every day I expected to come home and find the new sister sitting there grinning at me in the kitchen; even though Mum and Molly both warned me that it could take months to find the right child, I still hoped. I decided she would be with us by Easter. I would make her a chocolate cake with a little yellow chicken on top. I would share my Easter eggs with her.

Then one day when I came out of school, Mum was there waiting for me, shivering and smiling in the cold March wind. She said that Molly had rung her to say that she was coming round later with some news. My heart dropped right into my stomach. We practically ran home, clutching hands. I went straight up to my room and started to unravel the mess in it. I even took the Dyson up and sucked Twitchy hairs off the carpet. Finally, finally, I heard the car, and I shoved the last lot of socks and books and stuff under my bed. I prettied up the pile of softies and ran to the window, peering through the new mermaid-green curtains.

She was on her own. I was desolate.

I heard her and Mum talking in the hall, but I couldn’t get myself out of my room somehow; not yet. This is it, I kept thinking.

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