The Ice Twins by Tremayne S. K

Author:Tremayne, S. K. [Tremayne, S. K.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780007459247
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

‘It was Kirstie, she was here, she was in the window, Mummy, I saw her, but it wasn’t like last time, not like then, that time she was saying things, saying bad things, it was scary Mummy, but I – I – I—’

‘OK,’ says Angus. ‘Weeble, slow down.’

I stare at him.

Weeble?

That’s what he used to call Kirstie. Weeble. It’s a word from some TV ad when his mum was a kid: she taught it to him. Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down. That’s why he gave the word to Kirstie. Because Kirstie was the brave one, his favourite, the tomboy climbing trees, the roisterer doing fun things with Daddy, she would climb trees so high and yet she never fell down. Weeble.

He’s calling her Weeble. He’s hugging Lydia, and calling her Weeble, the same way he would tightly hug Kirstie. Hugging and kissing her. Does that mean he still thinks she is Kirstie? He knows something I don’t? Or is this just the terror of the moment?

‘Weeble,’ he says, ‘You don’t have to tell us.’

‘No.’ Lydia shakes her head and gazes at me. ‘I want to tell. Mummy?’ Now she reaches out her arms and she climbs into my arms and together we sit, mother and daughter, on the fashionable Turkish rugs with her on my lap and she breathes in and out for a few seconds, and then she says, ‘Kirstie was in the window upstairs too and I couldn’t stop her, every time I looked she was there, every time, and she’s dead and she’s in the mirror at home, and now she was in here and she starts saying things, Mummy, bad things, horrid things. This was different, Mummy, and it makes me frightened. I’m so frightened of her, make her go away now, please, make her go away, she is on the island and she is in the school and now she’s everywhere.’

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