The Guardian's Protector: The Chamber of Souls by Debbie Kowalczyk

Author:Debbie Kowalczyk [Kowalczyk, Debbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-02-26T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER

As if the sun knew what day it was, the morning of Tom’s fourth birthday was a beautiful, scorching hot day. After Tom opened all the presents from Amy and the rest of the family, they were excited to set off to Mark’s. As they reached the archway to the Garden of Need, Amy let David off his lead.

‘He turns white when I stroke him, Mum,’ Tom said, watching him run down the hill.

Amy wasn’t fully listening to Tom. She kept turning her head from side to side as usual, always on guard.

‘You know, like you do when you love me…or when you’re near Mark?’

Amy’s attention now taken, she turned to take notice. ‘What?’

‘I think people who are feeling love or are being loving can turn white. David loves it when I tickle his belly. I’m white all the time. That’s because I’m special, just like Ethan is black all the time because he’s my opposite.’

‘You see people as colours?’ Amy asked, suddenly remembering what had Rose told her years ago.

‘They’re not really colours, they’re more like dark and light. When a person is being nasty they turn darker and when they’re being nice they turn lighter. When they show love they are actually bright white like me. If I see an actual black person I get scary feelings inside me and then my body feels like it’s filling with light.’

‘By black person, you obviously don’t mean skin colour, right?’ Amy clarified.

‘Of course not,’ Tom said like the question was preposterous.

‘I thought not because you love Adaizi, don’t you?’ Amy smiled.

‘That’s because Adaizi is white,’ he said. ‘I think Adaizi is like me,’ he added, looking at Amy for some kind of confirmation.

‘Yes,’ Amy said. Allowing the confirmation to come out of her mouth made her feel odd. ‘So people turn white when they show love, do they?’ Amy asked.

‘Yes,’ he smiled knowingly. ‘Mark lights up blinding when he’s near you.’

Amy blushed, absorbing the fact that Mark loved her as if his words had come from the man himself. She felt relieved to have the obvious spelt out to her. Mark offered to do Tom a birthday party at his home just because he loved it there. She knew Mark loved Tom. Now she knew he loved her. Tom loved him, Amy loved him, he loved them—it should be so simple. She just needed to know what was stopping him.

Tom ran to catch up with David who had run up the path. He then knocked on the door before Amy reached the bottom step. The door opened abruptly.

‘Are yer the reason for all these balloooons, laddie?’ Mad-Doris screamed as she opened the door. David barked at her.

‘Yes,’ Tom replied. Amy could hear the excitement in his voice.

‘Well yer bedda come in then!’ Mad-Doris said, letting him enter. David cowered beside him.

Amy was surprised for a moment when Mad-Doris looked at Amy and smiled, but then soon realised what was behind the smile when her crafty, boggling eyes shone with mischief as she slammed the door shut.

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